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Peter Lynch Quotes & Sayings

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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

The best stock to buy is the one you already own. — Peter Lynch

Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work. — Peter Lynch

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

You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes. — Peter Lynch

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

You shouldn't just pick a stock - you should do your homework. — Peter Lynch

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. — Peter Lynch

Most investors would be better off in an index fund. — Peter Lynch

I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me. — Peter Lynch

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

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. — Peter Lynch

An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. — Peter Lynch

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

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

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

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade. — Peter Lynch

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes — Peter Lynch

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. — Peter Lynch

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. — Peter Lynch

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

Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job. — Peter Lynch

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

Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing. — Peter Lynch

Don't bottom fish. — Peter Lynch

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

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. — Peter Lynch

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon — Peter Lynch

It isn't the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stockpicker. — Peter Lynch

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

My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made. — Peter Lynch

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks. — Peter Lynch

Charts are great for predicting the past. — Peter Lynch

You should not buy a stock because it's cheap but because you know a lot about it. — Peter Lynch

Debt is saving in reverse. The more it builds up, the worse off you are. — Peter Lynch

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate. — Peter Lynch

Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will. — Peter Lynch

There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy. — Peter Lynch

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

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. — Peter Lynch

Hold no more stocks than you can remain informed on. — Peter Lynch

The natural-born investor is a myth. — Peter Lynch

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. — Peter Lynch

When even the analysts are bored, it's time to start buying. — Peter Lynch

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination. — Peter Lynch

When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap. — Peter Lynch

Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator. — Peter Lynch

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

Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong. — Peter Lynch

I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will. — Peter Lynch

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

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. — Peter Lynch

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. — Peter Lynch

The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out. — Peter Lynch

Long shots almost always miss the mark. — Peter Lynch

Invest in what you know. — Peter Lynch

Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies. — Peter Lynch

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. — Peter Lynch

In other words, I continue to think like an amateur as frequently as possible. GOING IT ALONE — Peter Lynch

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good. — Bill Gross

You can't see the future through a rearview mirror — Peter Lynch

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

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

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets. — Peter Lynch

That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it. — Peter Lynch

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. — Peter Lynch

Never invest in anything that cannot be illustrated with a crayon — Peter Lynch

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

I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis. — Peter Lynch

Know what you own, and know why you own it. — Peter Lynch

The simpler it is, the better I like it. — Peter Lynch

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. — Peter Lynch

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. — Peter Lynch

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

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

Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing. — Peter Lynch

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile. — Peter Lynch

I've always been a great lover of baseball. — Peter Lynch

You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot. — Peter Lynch

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle. — Peter Lynch