Peter Lynch Idea Quotes

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.

- Peter Lynch

Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

- Peter Lynch

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

- Peter Lynch

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections.

- Peter Lynch

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.

- Peter Lynch

In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

- Peter Lynch

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

- Peter Lynch

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

- Peter Lynch

The trick is not to learn to trust your gut feelings, but rather to discipline yourself to ignore them. Stand by your stocks as long as the fundamental story of the company hasn’t changed.

- Peter Lynch

Owning stocks is like having children – Don't get involved with more than you can handle.

- Peter Lynch

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.

- Peter Lynch

I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

- Thomas Edison

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

- Thomas Edison

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

- Seth Godin

It's not about ideas, it's about making ideas happen.

- Scott Belsky