developed a passion for making ten times my money early in my investing career. - Peter Lynch

if you are undecided and lack conviction, then you are a potential market victim,

Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share of stock is not a lottery ticket. It’s part ownership of a business.

It takes remarkable patience to hold on to a stock in a company that excites you, but which everybody else seems to ignore. You begin to think everybody else is right and you are wrong. But where the fundamentals are promising, patience is often rewarded — Lukens stock went up sixfold in the fifteenth year, American Greetings was a sixbagger in six years, Angelica a sevenbagger in four, Brunswick a sixbagger in five, and SmithKline a threebagger in two.