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Don't bottom fish.
Invest in what you know.
Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.
The natural-born investor is a myth.
Long shots almost always miss the mark.
The simpler it is, the better I like it.
Charts are great for predicting the past.
I've always been a great lover of baseball.
Know what you own, and know why you own it.
The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
You can't see the future through a rearview mirror
Hold no more stocks than you can remain informed on.
When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
Most investors would be better off in an index fund.
You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.
Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon
Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.
When even the analysts are bored, it's time to start buying.
You shouldn't just pick a stock - you should do your homework.
Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
Never invest in anything that cannot be illustrated with a crayon
Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.
Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.
All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
It isn't the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stockpicker.
I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.
An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
You should not buy a stock because it's cheap but because you know a lot about it.
It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.
Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.
Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.
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.
The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections.
There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.