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• If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.

  Peter Lynch

  Thinking, Investing, Attractive

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.

  Peter Lynch

  Fall, Weekend, Thinking

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• Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.

  Peter Lynch

  Mean, Doe, Investing

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• Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

  Peter Lynch

  Art, People, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

  Peter Lynch

  Luck, Investing, Nine

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• 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 ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Panic, Making Money

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Numbers, Return

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

  Peter Lynch

  Mean, Needs, Lifetime

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• My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.

  Peter Lynch

  Never Change, Made, Method

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• If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

  Peter Lynch

  Inspirational, Money, Intelligent

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?

  Peter Lynch

  Learning, Keys, History

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• You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

  Peter Lynch

  Mirrors, Rearview Mirror

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• The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

  Peter Lynch

  Success, Philosophy, Winning

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org.

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• 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 the markets.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Investment, Decline

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• There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors. That said, it isn't safe to own just one stock, because in spite of your best efforts, the one you choose might be the victim of unforeseen circumstances. In small portfolios, I'd be comfortable owning between three and ten stocks.

  Peter Lynch

  Best Effort, Diversity, Three

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Finance, Refrigerators

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• Long shots almost always miss the mark.

  Peter Lynch

  Long, Missing, Shots

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Long, Investing

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• The best stock to buy is the one you already own.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing

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• An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

  Peter Lynch

  Keys, Important, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

  Peter Lynch

  Your Side, Investing, Sides

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Long, Population

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• The simpler it is, the better I like it.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing

  Peter Lynch, John Rothchild (2000). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Peter Lynch

  Nice, Blue, Jeans

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.

  Peter Lynch

  Intelligent, Investing, Company

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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