Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.

The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.

Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.