233 Quotes by Peter Lynch

A person who owns property and has a stake in the enterprise is likely to work harder and feel happier and do a better job than a person who doesn.

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.

You just don’t know when you can find the bottom.

Primes are the atoms of the number system: every whole number is a product of primes.

The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren’t lottery tickets. There’s a company attached to every share.

If my favorite Internet company sells for $30 a share, and yours sells for $10, then people who focus on price would say that mine is the superior company. This is a dangerous delusion. What Mr. Market pays for a stock today or next week doesn’t tell you which company has the best chance to succeed two to three years down the information superhighway.

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.

You shouldn’t just pick a stock – you should do your homework.

Investing without research is like playing stud poker and never looking at the cards. For some reason the whole business.