If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
There is almost no limit to the ability of investors to ignore the lessons of the past. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The grim irony of investing is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get… — 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 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
Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
While the interests of the business are served by the aphorism 'Don't just stand there. Do something!' the interests of investors are… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
But whatever the consensus on the EMH, I know of no serious academic, professional money manager, trained security analyst, or intelligent individual… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
We live in a very risky world and investors should not get "carried away" with excessive allocations to equities, or for that… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The courage to press on regardless - regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Sure there are some companies at the margins of our society that probably do that and I think we all have the… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the stock market is simply not… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Our capitalistic scheme in the latter years of the 20th century seems to have lost its way. We've had a "pathalogical change"… — 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 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
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
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
