Peter Lynch Quotes - Page 3

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

  Peter Lynch

  Investing

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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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• 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.

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  Running, Long, Investing

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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.

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  Never Change, Made, Method

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

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  Your Side, Investing, Sides

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

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• A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.

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  Hurt, Opportunity, Storm

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

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• I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

  Peter Lynch

  Balls, Stuff, Crystals

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• Hold no more stocks than you can remain informed on.

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  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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?

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  Learning, Keys, History

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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.

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  Years, Long, Population

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• I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.

  Peter Lynch

  Feelings, Investing, Pants

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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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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• If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.

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  Cds, Investing, Today

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• Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.

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  Running, Idiot, Someday

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• Invest in what you know.

  Peter Lynch

  Knows

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• Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.

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  Wall, Winning, Average

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.

  Peter Lynch

  Thinking, Names, People

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• Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time.

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  Opportunity, Holy Grail, Littles

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• If you can find a company that can get away with raising prices year after year without losing customers (an addictive product such as cigarettes fills the bill), you've got a terrific investment.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Bills, Losing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.

  Peter Lynch

  Next Week, Data, Doe

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

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  Math, Fifth Grade, Made

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• I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

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  Real, Thinking, Investing

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• The most important organ in the body as far as the stock market is concerned is the guts, not the head. Anyone can acquire the know-how for analyzing stocks.

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  Important, Body, Analyzing

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• You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

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  Priorities, Investing, Plans

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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