Peter Lynch Quotes

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

Peter Lynch
If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.

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

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

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

Peter Lynch
The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.

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

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

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

Peter Lynch
I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do.

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

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

Peter Lynch
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