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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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• 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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• 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.

  Peter Lynch

  Hurt, Opportunity, Storm

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

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• There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.

  Peter Lynch

  Doe, Investing, Fundamentals

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.138, 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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• 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 statistics.

  Peter Lynch

  Philosophy, Preparation, Looks

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Peter Lynch

  Cds, Investing, Today

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

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Idiot, Someday

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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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• 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.

  Peter Lynch

  Opportunity, Holy Grail, Littles

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.115, 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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• 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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• 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.

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  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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• 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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• 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.

  Peter Lynch

  Real, Thinking, Investing

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

  Peter Lynch

  Would Be, Investing, Active Management

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

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  Office, Extravagance, Rewards

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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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