The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.
Peter LynchInvesting in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
Peter LynchPeople who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.
Peter LynchThere's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.
Peter Lynch