Peter Lynch Quotes
Top 79 wise famous quotes and sayings by Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Peter Lynch on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.
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.
In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.
The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.
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.
You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.
My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.
The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
The old Wall Street adage "never invest in anything that eats or needs repairs" may apply to racehorses, but it's malarkey when it comes to houses.
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.
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.
Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.
More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.
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.
That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket ... it's part-ownership of a business.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
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.
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.