Peter Lynch Quotes

• You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, then you’re not ready, you won’t do well in the markets.

  Peter Lynch

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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

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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

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• 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. You won’t get there by reading ‘Now is the time to buy.’

  Peter Lynch

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• When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I’ve bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don’t know when you can find the bottom.

  Peter Lynch

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• Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

  Peter Lynch

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• The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that’s always been my philosophy.

  Peter Lynch

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

  Peter Lynch

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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

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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

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• Don’t bottom fish.

  Peter Lynch

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• Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

  Peter Lynch

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• 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

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• I don’t go near the money and the money doesn’t go near me.

  Peter Lynch

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Peter Lynch (14)

Birth:	19th January, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Investor

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