Peter Lynch Quotes
Investing without research is like playing poker without looking at your cards. – Peter Lynch
In the stock market, you’re only as good as your last trade. – Peter Lynch
Do your homework or look foolish in the stock market. – Peter Lynch
Know what you own, and know why you own it. – Peter Lynch
Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130 IQ. – Peter Lynch
Invest in what you know. – Peter Lynch
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. – Peter Lynch
The stock market is not a casino. It’s a place to own a piece of the companies you believe in. – Peter Lynch
Beating the market is a victory of the mind, not the ego. – Peter Lynch
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. – Peter Lynch
The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. – Peter Lynch
The best stock to buy may be the one you already own. – Peter Lynch
The stock market is filled with opportunities. You just have to know where to look. – Peter Lynch
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. – Peter Lynch
Owning stocks is like having children – don’t get involved with more than you can handle. – Peter Lynch
There is no better business than staying in the black. – Peter Lynch
The time to sell is almost never when a company is in trouble, but when the stock price is irrationally high. – Peter Lynch
Do not try to predict the market – focus on companies and industries you understand. – Peter Lynch
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, you’re not ready, you won’t do well in the markets. – Peter Lynch
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. – Peter Lynch
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. – Peter Lynch
If you can’t convince yourself ‘When I’m down 25 percent, I’m a buyer’ and banish forever the fatal thought ‘When I’m down 25 percent, I’m a seller’, then you’ll never make a decent profit in stocks – Peter Lynch
Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it’s doing. – Peter Lynch
If you don’t study any companies, you have the same success buying stocks as you do in a poker game if you bet without looking at your cards. – Peter Lynch
Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon. – Peter Lynch
More money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves. – Peter Lynch
Success in investing doesn’t correlate with IQ… Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing. – Peter Lynch
The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime. – Peter Lynch
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. – Peter Lynch
Know what you own, and know why you own it. – Peter Lynch
There always seems to be excuses for why stocks don’t go up. Sometimes CEOs blame interest rates or oil prices or the Federal Reserve. – Peter Lynch
Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves. – Peter Lynch
If you are prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand. – Peter Lynch
If you can’t find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some. – Peter Lynch
Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years. – Peter Lynch
The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something – and then pay a lot less. – Peter Lynch
The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. – Peter Lynch
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
There are no shortage of challenges and investors need to plan for obstacles, but remember that you are investing in your dreams — not the world’s nightmares. – Peter Lynch
No investment plan survives first contact with the enemy. – Peter Lynch
Too often, investors sell their winners too soon and their losers too late. – Peter Lynch
Investing is fun, exciting, and dangerous if you don’t do any work. – 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
The more homework I do, the luckier I get. – Peter Lynch
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. – Peter Lynch
If you can’t convince yourself ‘When I’m down 25 percent, I’m a buyer’ and banish forever the fatal thought ‘When I’m down 25 percent, I’m a seller’, then you’ll never make a decent profit in stocks. – Peter Lynch
The stock market is not a casino, it’s a long-term investment vehicle. – Peter Lynch
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. – Peter Lynch
Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. – Peter Lynch
Gentlemen who prefer bonds don’t know what they’re missing. – Peter Lynch