Peter Lynch Quotes

Sometimes it takes longer to create value, but if the companies generate more earnings, the stocks will ultimately reflect that.

What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

When it comes to valuation, there's only one thing stock investors really care about, which is earnings.

I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.

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

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

For Gazprom, 2015 is turning out auspiciously. We already see the possibility for additional investments in our investment program.

If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people.

There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion.

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.

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.

I'm going to reveal the grand secret to getting rich by investing. It's a simple formula that has worked for Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn and all the greatest investment gurus over the years. Ready? Buy low, sell high.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.

Stocks actually can be a very good hedge against inflation, and short of hyperinflation, stocks will have the ability to increase their dividends to match the rise in prices.

My portfolio consists of many companies I find fundamentally undervalued in which I expect activism to play a role in the value being realised.

Approaches to determining stock values vary, but fundamentally, each company judging itself undervalued is saying that its future stream of earnings justifies a higher price than the stock market is willing to accord it.

We absolutely take no decisions based on the share price, not for LVMH.

Back in the early days at Netflix, it wasn't unheard of for me to tell prospective hires that I could see our stock going to a hundred dollars someday.