Peter Lynch Quotes

Just don't spend your money, and you're well on your way to becoming a millionaire.

The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about timing the market, but time in the market that matters.

Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

Couples that do save have stronger, more stable, less stressful unions. In other words, you don't want to be fighting about saving; you just want to be saving, period.

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.

Now's the time to teach your 5-year-old kid about financing. If they can add, I suggest that you start teaching them about saving that money. And how their money can add up in the future. I think the more you prepare your children for the future, the better off they'll be.

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

Don't identify yourself with labels and brands and have to buy every cute thing you see. Invest in the things that will grow in equity.

I'm making my money make money.

I don't spend my life making money to spend tomorrow, or to acquire possessions.

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’

If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?

Always invest for the long term.

A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who spend everything they get. This is probably the oldest financial advice in the world, but there are some things you can't improve on.

Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

The time to save for the future is now. Thanks to compounding interest, the earlier you start putting money away for the future, the more you will save.

Go where the money is... and go there often.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.