Quote #1
If you spend more than 14 minutes a year worrying about the market, you've wasted 12 minutes.
More from Peter Lynch
- The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
- The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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- In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
- 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 wel…
- 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 $…
- 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 b…
- Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.