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Description

Peter Lynch's acclaimed New York Times bestseller, with more than one million copies sold, is now a handy, useful Running Press Miniature Edition™! Readers will learn what stocks to avoid, how to decipher Wall Street jargon, how to design a perfect portfolio, and countless other ways to... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “in the end, superior companies will succeed and mediocre companies will fail, and investors in each will be rewarded accordingly”
  • “In fact, the stock market most reminds me of a stud poker game”
  • “To me, an investment is simply a gamble in which you've managed to tilt the odds in your favor”
  • “The 1960s was the greatest decade for diworseification since the Roman Empire diworseified all over Europe and northern Africa”
  • “if you don't think you can beat the market, then buy a mutual fund and save yourself a lot of extra work and money”

First Sentence

People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, Where did the Dow close?

Authors & Contributors

  1. John Rothchild (Author)
  2. Peter Lynch
 

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