If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings – assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.

— Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch Quotes

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.

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

— Peter Lynch
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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it’s doing.

— Peter Lynch

There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company’s fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.

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

— Peter Lynch

Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don’t do any work.

— Peter Lynch

The best stock to buy is the one you already own.

— Peter Lynch

A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you’re prepared, it can’t hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.

— Peter Lynch

Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of ’em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that’s the promise to some people.

— Peter Lynch

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.

— Peter Lynch

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

— Peter Lynch

You can’t see the future through a rearview mirror.

— Peter Lynch

So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.

— Peter Lynch

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.

— Peter Lynch

All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

— Peter Lynch

Invest in what you know.

— Peter Lynch
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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.

— Peter Lynch

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.

— Peter Lynch

I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.

— Peter Lynch

I’ve always been a great lover of baseball.

— Peter Lynch
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