Peter Lynch Quotes
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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I love the Fashion Fair Concealer Wheel. That's my little secret. It comes with three colors in it. What I like about it is that you could almost cover your whole face in it if you want because you can mix the colors to create the perfect shade that works with your skin.
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I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.
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I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
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Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
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I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.
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Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
