PETER LYNCH AVERAGED A +29% RETURN PER YEAR FOR 13 YEARS RUNNING FIDELITY'S MAGELLAN FUND
From 1977 to 1990, the fund's assets grew from about $18 million to more than $14 billion, one of the best runs in mutual fund history.
He did it through recessions, rate spikes and the 1987 Black Monday drop. Years later he wrote that "the real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them."