233 Quotes by Peter Lynch

A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, “This is it. I’ll never get back in again.” And they maybe meant it, but they probably got back in again anyway.

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

Big companies have small moves, small companies have big moves.

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.

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.

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.

This is one of the keys to successful investing: focus on the companies, not on the stocks.

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.

My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there’s money to be made.