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Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.

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

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

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

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

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All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

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

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

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

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

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It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

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The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.

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Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.

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Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.

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The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.

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

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It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

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The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.

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The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.

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The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.

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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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The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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