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• Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators,
  head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement of the constellations through the heavens, and the moss on oak trees, and they can't predict markets with any useful consistency, any more than the gizzard squeezers could tell the Roman emperors when the Huns would attack.

  Peter Lynch

  Tree, Heaven, Consistency

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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

  Peter Lynch

  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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• The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.

  Peter Lynch

  Office, Extravagance, Rewards

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• Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

  Peter Lynch

  Would Be, Investing, Active Management

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• 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 three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Two, Twenties

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, After Hours, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

  Peter Lynch

  Competition, Healthy, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Months, Winner

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.

  Peter Lynch

  Rocks, Two, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'

  Peter Lynch

  Office, Wish, More Time

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• The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.

  Peter Lynch

  Simple, Stories, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Long, Investing

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

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• 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.

  Peter Lynch

  Long, Cracks, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

  Peter Lynch

  Commitment, Divorce, Romance

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Business, Intelligent

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

  Peter Lynch

  Successful, Work Out, Needs

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.

  Peter Lynch

  Degrees, Lucky, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Way, Lost

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• The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Cash, Pressure

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.

  Peter Lynch

  Napkins

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• 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.

  Peter Lynch

  Men, Investing, Our Society

  Peter Lynch, John Rothchild (2012). “Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.

  Peter Lynch

  Ignorance, Investing, Buying

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

  Peter Lynch

  Baseball, Golf, Hockey

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.

  Peter Lynch

  Zero, Fall, Minnesota

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• People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.

  Peter Lynch

  Numbers, People, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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