233 Quotes by Peter Lynch

Whenever you invest in any company, you’re looking for its market cap to rise. This can’t happen unless buyers are paying higher prices for the shares, making your investment more valuable.

Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it’s easier to admit you’re a crack addict than to admit you’re a short-term investor.

The stock market really isn’t a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.

Gentlemen who prefer bonds don’t know what they’re missing.

There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don’t understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product.

You should not buy a stock because it’s cheap but because you know a lot about it.

Stocks you trade, it’s wives you’re stuck with.

I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That’s crystal ball stuff. That doesn’t work.

Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst’s job.