Beating the Street

By Jon V. Kofas

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 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671759159
• ISBN13: 9780671759155
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great for a newbie

I am very new at the investing game, and pretty much know what your average couch potato does... I found this book to be very interesting and easy to read. Peter Lynch seems very down to earth and humorous and his tips are pretty basic and easy to follow. Considering the topic (which I assumed would put me to sleep like the History Channel!) I was quite surprised when I found I couldn't put it down. I would recommend it...

Learn from the Master

Lynch's success comes not from his complex algorithms and estoric financial modeling, but from opening his eyes to the world and noticing good businesses.His success at Magellan is attributed to his ability to find good companies, at reasonable valuations, and be patient enough to watch them climb.This book is much more specific than his other release. Here, he provides detailed accounts of stock picking strategy, including...

If you lust for stocks and lust for money, Lynch will help

My profession is writing, but my business is investing. With over 50 years of experience in the stock market and having made millions, I think I know what's up. Not only is this book definitive on stock picking, it is also fun and easy to read and the author's humanity comes right through. And the core message that you can do better than the fund managers (for a variety of reasons) is, from my own experience, true. Try...

I did not know a thing about investing until I read this.

This book was reccommended to me by my stock broker, and I decided to read it because I knew nothing about investing. I was scared to get into investing for fear of losing money. I read this book, and learned how to pick winning stocks, and since reading it,I opened an account, and I am up 75% since beginning investing in January 1998. the book is written so that it is humerous at times, and not technical, it is written...