Peter Lynch Quotes

In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

Fundamentals make the market.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

Predicting the market is always tough.

The markets do numbers, not nuance.

Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.

Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

More and more investors may be coming into markets everywhere but that doesn't mean that the markets are really getting more and more efficient, even in the United States. It does mean that there is more access for savvy investors who watch the money flows.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive.

I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

To this day, I'm a slave to CNBC.

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia.

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

I always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.

Thanks, Mr. President. Nobody has complimented the stock exchange for a long while.

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.

Looking at the stock market to understand the economy is like studying a manic depressive in order to understand human nature.

When Trump was a candidate, he talked about the stock market, because, oh, the stock market was going up when Obama was president.

I pay almost no attention to the charts.