If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term? — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I think it's gone much too far. Most of them are not worth the powder to blow them to hell. — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong. — 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
I've usually used the phrase 'stay the course' as one of the great rules of investment success. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Enjoy the magic of compounding returns. Even modest investments made in one's early 20s are likely to grow to staggering amounts over… — 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
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
Capitalism is not a Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is a scheme of free markets. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs. — 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
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
"Now you can trade the S&P 500 Index in real time" was the slogan in the newspapers for the first ETF. What… — 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
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 Image
When you're young, you've got plenty of time to recover from your mistakes. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
