Peter Lynch

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
But my system for over 30 years has been this: 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 $30. You just don’t know when you can find the bottom
Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it
My best stocks have been the third year, the fourth year, the fifth year I’ve owned them. It’s not the third week, the fourth week. People want their money very rapidly, it doesn’t happen
It is futile to predict, even no expert can precisely predict the market. Don’t worry about the market noise. Concentrate that energy to find more fundamentals about the company that you are investing in
I think you have to learn that there’s a company behind every stock, and that there’s only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies
Invest in stocks that other people do not know. There is not much opportunity in companies that already have people’s attention. Find boring, small, unknown companies for the best opportunities
Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed
Investing is fun, exciting and dangerous if you don’t do any work
Investing without research is like playing stud poker and never looking at the cards
The simpler it is, the better I like it
As I look back on it now, it’s obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics. Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who’ve been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage
When you’re short, you can only make 90%; when you’re long, you can make tenfold
It’s human nature to keep doing something as long as it’s pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years
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
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them
Your investor’s edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It’s something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren’t lottery tickets. There’s a company attached to every share. Find out what it’s doing
Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon
Owning stocks is like having children — don’t get involved with more than you can handle
If you can’t find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some
Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies
Know what you own, and know why you own it
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 well in the markets.
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 by reading ‘Now is the time to buy’
Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket… it’s part-ownership of a business
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it
Don’t bottom fish
I don’t go near the money and the money doesn’t go near me
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn’t be a bad thing
If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it’s gonna be cold. You don’t panic when the thermometer falls below zero
In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991

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