If you can find a company that can get away with raising prices year after year without losing customers (an addictive product such as cigarettes fills the bill), you've got a terrific investment.

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

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.