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Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators,
head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement of the constellations through the heavens, and the moss on oak trees, and they can't predict markets with any useful consistency, any more than the gizzard squeezers could tell the Roman emperors when the Huns would attack.
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My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.
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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
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Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.
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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.
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If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.
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Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.
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If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
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Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.
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Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.
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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.
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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.
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Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
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That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.
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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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