"As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics. Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. If stock picking could be quantified, you could rent time on the nearest Cray computer and make a fortune. But it doesn't work that way. All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade". Can there be a better way to invite lay investors to stocks? In his bestseller 'One Up on Wall Street', multibillion fund manager Mr. Peter Lynch, uses his myriad experiences to give an insight into the rules of stock investing.