Peter Lynch Long Quotations

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

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.

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.

What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.

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.

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.

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.

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.