Introduction

About the book

One Up On Wall Street is one of the best books on the stock market. In this book, Peter Lynch (author) teaches how an ordinary investor can achieve high returns from his investment if they follow a common-sense investing approach. If you are just getting started with the stock market, it helps you understand the basics of investing and how the market works.

About the author

Peter Lynch is an American Investor, a philanthropist, a former fund manager at Fidelity Investments and the author of the best selling book on the stock market: One Up On Wall Street. He has also written and co-authored a number of other books and papers on investing strategies. His most famous investment principle is "invest in what you know".

One of his famous quotes: "Invest in what you know. It leaves out the role of serious fundamental stock research. People buy a stock and they know nothing about it. That's gambling and it's not good" – Peter Lynch.