Occupation: Businessman Birth: January 19, 1944
Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job..
Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections..
Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed..
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 ….
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 d….
You can't see the future through a rearview mirror.
It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile..
In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment..
The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price..
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 ….
Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not….
Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actuall….
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the m….
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..
The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out..
Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing..
There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do..
Invest in what you know..
When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You ju….
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 sav….
You shouldn't just pick a stock - you should do your homework..