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One Up On Wall Street
by Peter Lynch
Description:
More than one million copies have been sold of this seminal book on investing in which legendary mutual fund manager Peter Lynch explains the advantages that average investors have over professionals and how they can use these advantages to achieve financial success.
America’s most successful money manager tells how average investors can beat the pros by using what they know. According to Lynch, investment opportunities are everywhere. From the supermarket to the workplace, we encounter products and services all day long. By paying attention to the best ones, we can find companies in which to invest before the professional analysts discover them. When investors get in early, they can find the tenbaggers, the stocks that appreciate tenfold from the initial investment. A few tenbaggers will turn an average stock portfolio into a star performer.
Lynch offers easy to follow advice for sorting out the long shots from the no shots by reviewing a company’s financial statements and knowing which numbers really count. He offers guidelines for investing in cyclical, turnaround, and fast-growing companies.
As long as you invest for the long term, Lynch says, your portfolio can reward you. This timeless advice has made One Up on Wall Street a #1 bestseller and a classic book of investment know-how.
About The Author
Peter Lynch is an Irish meteorologist, mathematician, blogger and book author. His interests include numerical weather prediction, dynamic meteorology, Hamiltonian mechanics, and the history of meteorology.
He was born in Dublin, and educated at University College Dublin, where he obtained his BSc (1968) and MSc (1969) in mathematical science. He enlisted in the Irish meteorological service (now known as Met Éireann) in 1971, and worked there until 2004, rising to the rank of Head of the Research and Training Division and later Deputy Director. In 1982, he was awarded a PhD by Trinity College Dublin for his thesis Planetary-scale Hydrodynamic Instability in the Atmosphere written under the supervision of Ray Bates.
In 2004, he moved to academia, becoming Met Éireann Professor of Meteorology at the School of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Meteorology & Climate Centre at University College Dublin. He has supervised several doctoral theses there.
Shortly after formally retiring from UCD in 2011, he started writing a weekly mathematical blog called “That’s Maths”, about half of the columns also appearing in The Irish Times newspaper (on the first and third Thursdays of each month)
Skryf Review
Excellent book
The book is a great primer on the entire stock investing exercise. Helps build the basic thought structure to approach portfolio construction, things to look for when picking stocks, where to focus your energies and where not to. In essence, a peek inside the mind of a very successful investor giving pointers/lessons to a beginner as also reinforcement of thought process to a professional investor.