Peter Lynch Quotes - Page 5

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• Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.

  Peter Lynch

  Missing, Gentleman, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Saving, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• When even the analysts are bored, it's time to start buying.

  Peter Lynch

  Bored, Buying, Analysts

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Analysis, Fifteen

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• There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

  Peter Lynch

  Way, Reason, Company

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

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• Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

  Peter Lynch

  People, Perfect, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

  Peter Lynch

  World, Ends, Economist

  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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• The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.

  Peter Lynch

  School, America, Important

  Peter Lynch, John Rothchild (2012). “Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.

  Peter Lynch

  Routine, Investing, Rewards

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

  Peter Lynch

  Would Be, Investing, Exit

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.

  Peter Lynch

  Hot, Industry

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, 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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• The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So it's getting worse, the deterioration by professionals is getting worse. The public would be better off in an index fund.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Would Be, Deterioration

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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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• Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

  Peter Lynch

  Intelligent, Investing, Tickets

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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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• Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

  Peter Lynch

  Thinking, Two, People

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• All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

  Peter Lynch

  Hands, People, Effort

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.

  Peter Lynch

  Homework, Mutual Fund, Stomach

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

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• You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

  Peter Lynch

  Bottom, Knows

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• Never invest in anything that cannot be illustrated with a crayon

  Peter Lynch

  Crayon

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• My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.

  Peter Lynch

  Zero, Fun, Typical

  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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• You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

  Peter Lynch

  Morning, News, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

  Peter Lynch

  Numbers, Investing, Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

  Peter Lynch, John Rothchild (2012). “Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.

  Peter Lynch

  Children, Investing, Chance

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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