Peter Lynch Investing Quotes & Sayings

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade. — Peter Lynch

Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work. — Peter Lynch

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out. — Peter Lynch

Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies. — Peter Lynch

You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news. — Peter Lynch

The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out. — Peter Lynch

Know what you own, and know why you own it. — Peter Lynch

I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do. — Peter Lynch

The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing. — Peter Lynch

The best stock to buy is the one you already own. — Peter Lynch

Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two. — Peter Lynch

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. — Peter Lynch

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination. — Peter Lynch

There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating. — Peter Lynch

An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. — Peter Lynch

The natural-born investor is a myth. — Peter Lynch

I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up. — Peter Lynch

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile. — Peter Lynch

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle. — Peter Lynch

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing. — Peter Lynch

People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture. — Peter Lynch

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. — Peter Lynch

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks. — Peter Lynch

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them. — Peter Lynch

That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it. — Peter Lynch

The simpler it is, the better I like it. — Peter Lynch

In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up. — 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

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you. — Peter Lynch

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. — Peter Lynch

In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress. — Peter Lynch

Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing. — Peter Lynch

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. — Peter Lynch

The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away. — Peter Lynch

In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it. — Peter Lynch

Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing. — Peter Lynch

Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job. — Peter Lynch

The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So it's getting worse, the deterioration by professionals is getting worse. The public would be better off in an index fund. — Peter Lynch