They worked out a new deal between another group of investors (headed by John Peirce) and the Plymouth Company, which owned the land. - Peter Lynch

In dieting and in stocks, it is the gut and not the head that determines the results.

the stock market demands conviction as surely as it victimizes the unconvinced.

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.