Beating the Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market

· Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Peter Lynch
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Legendary money manager Peter Lynch explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio.

Develop a Winning Investment Strategy—with Expert Advice from “The Nation’s #1 Money Manager.” Peter Lynch’s “invest in what you know” strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small.

An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There’s a company behind every stock and a reason companies—and their stocks—perform the way they do. In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research.

In Beating the Street, Lynch for the first time explains how to devise a mutual fund strategy, shows his step-by-step strategies for picking stock, and describes how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts.

There’s no reason the individual investor can’t match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how.

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4.5
27 reviews
Jennifer Graziano
May 22, 2025
A stock portfolio isn't a game; joke, or boring. The companies already have to be in our language where a number of answers are complete when one-hundred percent full is reached. Once finished investing neatness of our record keeping is learned due to market changes in other places than futures. Invester money is equity; shareholder means company products are a household name; however, the stock market belongs to no individuals. Where all invested names are who's here so the same ones; they aren't what usable to shareholders. Data sheets are and how to get rich normally in the real-life market. Investment portfolio comfort is different than the stock one. We don't invest in foreign companies; that we be crazy. We know the market and they're a part of it. The "Who wants to be a millionaire" saying is rewarding to personal investors. Motley Fool money is calendar reserved the closing includes stock market outlook. Stock picks might be in the guides; they might not be. What company names are real is included.
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chase kincaid
August 13, 2021
good book, but audiobook is missing chapters 4, 5, 6, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 19. There should be 21 chapters.
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P “Palik” G
March 11, 2021
good, but missing chapters from original reading
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About the author

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).

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