Peter Lynch Quotes
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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Charts are great for predicting the past.
— Peter Lynch
Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
— 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 you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
— 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'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
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
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
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket ... it's part-ownership of a business.
— 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
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
— Peter Lynch
I've always been a great lover of baseball.
— Peter Lynch