John C. Bogle

I seek the truth.

— John C. Bogle

Mutual funds with superior performance records often falter.

— John C. Bogle

I will create value for society, rather than extract it.

— John C. Bogle

Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient.

— John C. Bogle

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

— John C. Bogle

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

— John C. Bogle

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

— John C. Bogle

U.S. companies are innovative and entrepreneurial.

— John C. Bogle

My only regret about money is that I don't have more to give away.

— John C. Bogle

My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.

— John C. Bogle

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

The best rule for philanthropy is to give until it hurts, as much as you can, because none of us can get…

— John C. Bogle

You know the rule of 72, divide the number into 72, any number you want, and that's how long it will take…

— John C. Bogle

New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.

— John C. Bogle

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

— John C. Bogle

When you're young, you've got plenty of time to recover from your mistakes.

— John C. Bogle

“The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.” Stick to the good plan. Traditional”

— John C. Bogle

I liked the so-called Volcker Rule. I would have separated investment banking and commercial, deposit banking, as we did under the Glass-Steagal…

— John C. Bogle

My favourite holdings are Vanguard's Wellington Fund, a balanced mutual fund which is a legacy investment from my first career at Wellington…

— John C. Bogle

At the beginning of my sophomore year at Princeton University, I took my first economics course; our textbook was the first edition…

— John C. Bogle

I tend to give to those who have helped me along the road of life: Blair Academy, Princeton University, our church, and…

— John C. Bogle

I'm not currently into economic textbooks, but my grandchildren tell me that the book by Gregory Mankiw, former head of the white…

— John C. Bogle

Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be…

— John C. Bogle

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Learning is to the Studious, and Riches to the Careful. If a man…

— John C. Bogle

We must work to establish a 'fiduciary society,' where manager/agents entrusted with managing other people's money are required - by federal statute…

— John C. Bogle

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

Working for company X and having a substantial portion of your retirement plan in company X is simply exposing yourself to too…

— John C. Bogle

While we would typically encourage young people to start saving for the future as early as possible, it's unlikely that a budding…

— John C. Bogle

Well, I like regulation as little as anybody else. It can be intrusive. It can be detailed. It can be bureaucratic. It…

— John C. Bogle

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

I'd be the first to agree that capitalism bestows its blessings unevenly. But that wouldn't persuade me to think it was a…

— John C. Bogle

I think it's fairly easy to provide a moral defense of capitalism. It has been - over the last 200 years -…

— John C. Bogle

My grandfather was a wealthy and respected merchant in Montclair, New Jersey, where I was born. But his estate was wiped out…

— John C. Bogle

Never underrate the importance of asset allocation.

— John C. Bogle

Successful investing is all about common sense.

— John C. Bogle

I don't see any magic in hedge funds.

— John C. Bogle

Wise investors won't try to outsmart the market.

— John C. Bogle

I built a career out of knowing what I don't know.

— John C. Bogle

The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.

— John C. Bogle

I love the English language. Words have power.

— John C. Bogle