Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I would advise someone who has just retired to be something in the broad range of 50/50 stocks and bonds. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I think average investors should not trade a lot. The evidence is overpowering. The more you trade, the less you earn. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The average hedge fund manager is going to earn zero per cent in extra return. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I do think that impact investing is not that effective. Shares go from investor A to investor B, and the company doesn't… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The mistakes we make as investors is when the market's going up, we think it's going to go up forever. When the… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I believe that the mutual fund industry's biggest shortcoming is too much focus on the momentary price of a stock - an… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
We are facing incredible challenges in the economy of the U.S. and the economy of the globe, but the stock market, we… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
There no longer can be any doubt that the creation of the first index mutual fund was the most successful innovation -… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I like Burton Malkiel's 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street.' He comes to the same conclusion that I do - that indexing… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
When our financial system - essentially our money managers, marketers of investment products and stockbrokers - put up zero percent of the… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
In investing, you get what you don't pay for. Costs matter. So intelligent investors will use low-cost index funds to build a… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
We need a federal government commission to study the way our financial services system is working - I believe it is working… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I believe Washington should be a more active participant focusing on the issue of why corporate shareholders and mutual fund shareholders are… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I believe that the behavior of too many of our corporations investment bankers and fund managers has jeopardized some of the trust… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
We need to reorganize our entire system of retirement plan investing and to develop federal standards of fiduciary duty for pension trustees… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
We make too much out of past performance, and it's very misleading to investors. It causes them to move money around. They… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The culture of the mutual fund industry, when I came into it in 1951, was pretty much a culture of fiduciary duty… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“So please don't forget that considering the probabilities of future returns only begins the decision-making process. Decisions have consequences. If the consequences… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The Vanguard Experiment was designed to prove that mutual funds could operate independently, and do so in a manner that would directly… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The returns we read about in the industry sales literature vastly diminish when we move from the theoretical world of market indexes… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs or international conglomerateurs, or large financial institutions buy or create mutual fund management companies to create a return on their own… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
It's 1450 out of 1500 ETF funds that I just wouldn't touch because they're not diversified enough. Or they have some huge… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Regardless of what happens in the markets, stick to your investment program. Changing your strategy at the wrong time can be the… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The basic idea of retirement income is, to me, to get a check, two checks every month, one from your fixed income and one… — John C. Bogle Copy Share
When you're young, you've got plenty of time to recover from your mistakes. — John C. Bogle Copy Share
I almost hate to say how proud I am of my career and, most of all, helping folks get the returns they deserve. — John C. Bogle Copy Share
The Vanguard Experiment was designed to prove that mutual funds could operate independently, and do so in a manner that would directly benefit their… — John C. Bogle Copy Share
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Learning is to the Studious, and Riches to the Careful. If a man empties his… — John C. Bogle Copy Share
I liked the so-called Volcker Rule. I would have separated investment banking and commercial, deposit banking, as we did under the Glass-Steagal Act. I… — John C. Bogle Copy Share
We make too much out of past performance, and it's very misleading to investors. It causes them to move money around. They buy a… — John C. Bogle Copy Share
It's very difficult for any particular segment of the stock market to sustain superior performance. The watch word for our financial markets is, "reversion… — John C. Bogle Copy Share
I do think that impact investing is not that effective. Shares go from investor A to investor B, and the company doesn't even know… — John C. Bogle Copy Share
I was born in an earlier generation and, as a group, my classmates at Blair Academy and Princeton University were as ethical, straightforward, and… — John C. Bogle Copy Share
Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for… — John C. Bogle Copy Share
Without getting into brothels, there are ethical capitalists the problem is that there aren't enough of them. It is not "just a few bad… — John C. Bogle Copy Share
The average hedge fund manager is going to earn zero per cent in extra return. — John C. Bogle Copy Share
