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When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.

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When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

Peter Lynch

There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.

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

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

Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch

Born: January 19, 1944 (age 80)

Bio: Peter Lynch is an American businessman and stock investor. As the manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.

Known for:

Beating the Street (1993)
Learn to Earn (1995)
Wildlife and conservation volunteering (2009)

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