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
People were writing off California a couple of years ago, now they have a massive surplus. Canada is running its first surplus in 20 years and Mexico is doing well. Wouldn't you have been shocked if someone told you that the U.S. would have been running a surplus?
It's absolute crap that people need to spend 60 hours a week analyzing companies, ... All you need are a few stocks to make money. If you find one stock a year, that's plenty. When I was running Magellan I had to find one a week but that was because I had billions of dollars. The average person needs only a few good stocks in a lifetime.
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.
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.
Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
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.
I spend about 15 minutes a year on economic analysis. The way you lose money in the stock market is to start off with an economic picture. I also spend 15 minutes a year on where the stock market is going.
People have all this data and they go through it and make up their minds in four seconds, ... We're forcing people to do the wrong things. They look at what's hot. They spend so much time trying to figure out if the market is going up. That's so unimportant. It's about earnings. They need to follow the earnings.
I think Coca-Cola needs a rest. Some phases of the market, some of the big stocks are in that category.
People want to know 'what is my cost.' Period.
We're not budgeting for it to do that. We think that it is possible that into our coffers you could probably push 8 or 10 million (euros) EBITDA ...but I think it's probably not the right thing to do in this period of consolidation.
The only thing that we're going to say is that our client has been arraigned. We've continued a not-guilty plea as we have all along. We intend to vigorously defend this case and we will see you at trial.
We have concluded that a sale of our Bahamian operation is in the company's best interest as we continue to sharpen our focus on successfully implementing our business plan and preparing to emerge from Chapter 11. Although the 12 stores in the Bahamas are profitable, they are not a core business for us.