Nothing is simpler than owning the stock market and holding it forever, and that's essentially the idea behind the index fund. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
What indexing does is neutralize a large part of the stock market. There's no trading in those stocks, or almost none. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
If it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
It's very difficult for any particular segment of the stock market to sustain superior performance. The watch word for our financial markets… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of… — 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
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
If you were to just design the perfect retirement plan, you would own the stock market or you would own the bond… — 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
