I love that there is no discrimination of any kind – if you can breathe you can take part. We are absolutely loving it. A massive thank you to the people who thought of this – it’s so much fun.” Wayne, Leslie (1992-12-19). "Lynch Joining Fidelity Coaching Staff". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-04-22. This led Lynch to create a new investment principle: Never invest in any idea you van't illustrate with a crayon!

Occasionally wonky but overall a good case for how the dismal science can make the world less—well, dismal. The game sees individuals, or teams – often schools and families – use a card to tap into ‘Beat Boxes’ located on lampposts all across town and this expansion will support more than 655,000 people to get active. It is well to consider the financial strength and debt structure to see if a few bad years would hinder the company's long-term progress.Lynch has also argued against market timing, stating: "Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in the corrections themselves." [29] Unlike his other 2 books (One up on Wall Street & Learn to Earn), I had chosen to give this book 3 stars instead due to my own inability to relate much to the examples cited in the book. Overall, it was still a relatively easy read. More than 850,000 people have taken part in the game in the last five years, with findings showing that participants increased their weekly walking by 180 minutes a week and their overall levels of physical activity by 335 minutes per week in the six months after playing the game. Schoenberger, Chana R. (7 December 2015). "Peter Lynch, 25 Years Later: It's Not Just 'Invest in What You Know' ". Wall Street Journal. wsj.com. Schoenberger, Chana. "Peter Lynch, 25 years later: it's not just 'invest in what you know' ". MarketWatch . Retrieved 2023-06-25.

Peter Lynch also goes into writing about his time at managing Magellan through the years. In the latter part of the book, he describes how he goes about finding winners in the different sectors of the market aka "walking the talk". Peter Lynch managed the Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990 when it was one of the most successful mutual-funds of all time. He then became a vice chairman at Fidelity and more recently has become a prominent philanthropist particularly active in the Boston area. His books include One Up on Wall Street , Beating the Street , and Learn to Earn (all written with John Rothchild). Hi, this is Kim. I remember talking to you and you said that while K mart went into all the big towns, Wal-Mart was doing even better because it went into all the small towns where there was no competition, and I remember you said you were the guest speaker at Sam Walton's award ceremony, and just yesterday Wal-Mart was sixty dollars and they announced a two-for-one split. Lynch married Carolyn Ann Hoff and cofounded the Lynch Foundation. [36] They had three daughters. His wife died in October 2015 due to complications of leukemia at age 69. [37] Wealth and philanthropy [ edit ]Lynch has stated in One Up on Wall Street that his undergraduate studies in philosophy and logic were more important to his career than the math or finance he studied for his MBA. [27] At Wharton, he came to believe that the two prevailing investing theories in academia, the random walk hypothesis and the efficient market hypothesis, were contradictory. The concepts taught by professors at school were regularly disproved by professionals during his internship at Fidelity. He thus came to rely more on practitioners than theoreticians: "It seemed to me that what was supposed to help you succeed in the investment business, could only help you fail ... Quantitative analysis taught me that the things I saw happening at Fidelity couldn't really be happening." [28] They got to the others as follows: Wal-Mart because they were shown a videotaped segment of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" that featured Wal-Mart's founder, Sam Walton, talking about how investing benefits the economy; NYNEX and Mobil because of their excellent dividends; Food Lion, Inc., because it was a well-run company with a high return on equity and also because it was featured in the same video segment that introduced them to Sam Walton. Ms. Morrissey explains: