Peter Lynch Quotes

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.

One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.

I thought the stock was a great buy. I think anybody that bought the stock in 1999 was - saw over the next couple of years a strong growth. During the year of 1999, I significantly increased my ownership of shares in the company.

When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.

I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.

I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.

I'm a stockholder. I own a lot of stocks.

Buying securities is usually easier than selling securities.

This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

I don't know anything about a stock!

I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.

Most stocks bought and sold on Wall Street are held in what's called 'street name.'

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

Business is other people's money.

I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.

We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

Gold is a commodity; over the long run, as we look back, it has not been a good investment. You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

I was lucky to become a Facebook board member in late 2008. Restricted stock units granted me at the time have increased many times in value.

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.