John C. Bogle

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

— John C. Bogle

If we wanted something, we had to earn it.

— John C. Bogle

Eliminate emotion from your investment program.

— John C. Bogle

There's no such thing as wealth without risk.

— John C. Bogle

Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

— John C. Bogle

Investing is a virtuous habit best started as early as possible.

— John C. Bogle

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

— John C. Bogle

The index fund always gives you the market return.

— John C. Bogle

If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?

— John C. Bogle

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

— John C. Bogle

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

— John C. Bogle

The long-term focus of index funds is a much needed counterweight to the short-termism favored by so many market participants.

— John C. Bogle

There's no perfection in family life, and certainly we aren't perfect, but we're probably about as close as we can be.

— John C. Bogle

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

If it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate

— John C. Bogle

I believe - deeply and profoundly - that speculation is a loser's game.

— John C. Bogle

In Las Vegas we all know that it's the croupiers who win. At the race track, it's those who control the handle…

— John C. Bogle

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

We have moved from treating funds as investment trusts designed to serve their owner-beneficiaries to treating funds as consumer products, designed to…

— John C. Bogle

If the job of capitalism is to create wealth for those who put up the capital, no fund group comes close to…

— John C. Bogle

The driving force of any profession includes not only the special knowledge, skills and standards that it demands, but the duty to…

— John C. Bogle

“Investors need to understand not only the magic of compounding long-term returns, but the tyranny of compounding costs; costs that ultimately overwhelm…

— John C. Bogle

In an ideal world, Adam Smith-like, individuals would recognize what they need to do in their own self-interest, and they will make…

— John C. Bogle

Have rational expectations for future returns and avoid changing those expectations in response to the ephemeral noise coming from Wall Street.

— John C. Bogle

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

Well, bitcoin is a currency. Bitcoin has no underlying rate of return. You know, bonds have an interest coupon. Stocks have earnings…

— John C. Bogle

So the misplaced assumption is that we have this whole new institutional element where these [financial] institutions are looking after their own…

— John C. Bogle

While I haven't read economist Robin Hahnel's work, replacing capitalism would be at the very bottom of my list of priorities -…

— John C. Bogle

“As I have earlier noted, the most important things in life and in business can’t be measured. The trite bromide 'If you…

— John C. Bogle

Thomas Aquinas defined the human soul as the core of our being, and the power that brings our characteristics into unity so…

— John C. Bogle

The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't.…

— John C. Bogle

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

Glen Weyl is a good friend of mine.

— John C. Bogle

If the fluctuations in your investment portfolio are reduced, the impact of emotions and behavior on your account is also reduced.

— John C. Bogle

I almost hate to say how proud I am of my career and, most of all, helping folks get the returns they…

— John C. Bogle

I think it's gone much too far. Most of them are not worth the powder to blow them to hell.

— John C. Bogle

The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

— John C. Bogle

Diversification has been, and balance, like Wellington, has been so drummed into me, it's part of my personality.

— John C. Bogle

We do some things for family reasons. If it's not consistent, well, life isn't always consistent.

— John C. Bogle

When a door closes, if you look long enough and hard enough, if you're strong enough, you'll find a window that opens.

— John C. Bogle