Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch
Peter Lynchis an American businessman and stock investor. As the manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return, consistently more than doubling the S&P 500 market index and making it the best performing mutual fund in the world. During his tenure, assets under management increased from $18 million to $14 billion. He also co-authored a number of books and papers on investing and coined a number of well known mantras...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth19 January 1944
CountryUnited States of America
Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.
You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
Long shots almost always miss the mark.
Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections.
I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.
Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.
Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time.
The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.
There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.
All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.
Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.
Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even a few years. In the long term, there is a 100 percent correlation between the success of the company and the success of its stock. This disparity is the key to making money; it pays to be patient, and to own successful companies.