233 Quotes by Peter Lynch

Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?

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.

When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

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.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.