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• All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

  Peter Lynch

  Math, Needs, 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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• 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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• When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

  Peter Lynch

  Buying, Attractive, Bottom

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• It isn't the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stockpicker.

  Peter Lynch

  Fate, Stomach, Determine

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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 have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.

  Peter Lynch

  Mistake, Bigs

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• When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.

  Peter Lynch

  Priorities, Salary, Firsts

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out just by sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company.

  Peter Lynch

  Horse, Wall, Thinking

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.

  Peter Lynch

  Jobs, Investing, Elements

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.

  Peter Lynch

  Children, Investing, Get Involved

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

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• Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Experts, Use

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

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• Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.

  Peter Lynch

  Fun, Investing, Exciting

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• You shouldn't just pick a stock - you should do your homework.

  Peter Lynch

  Homework, Should, Picks

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Play, Typical

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 the stock price.

  Peter Lynch

  Thinking, Long, Good Company

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.32, 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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• Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Finance, Refrigerators

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• When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

  Peter Lynch

  Desperation, Sells

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Winner, Lifetime

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

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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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