All Peter Lynch Quotes
- During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit. Blue
- Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor. Addict
- I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the… Analysts
- Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job. Analysts
- There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise… Corner
- As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying… Better
- Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. Art
- All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade. All
- The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing. All
- In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up. Been
- The natural-born investor is a myth. Born
- Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated. Better
- If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number. Business
- The simpler it is, the better I like it. Better
- Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you… Altogether
- If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing. All
- Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to… Absent
- There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when… Additional
- You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in… Decline
- The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of… Companies