There no longer can be any doubt that the creation of the first index mutual fund was the most successful innovation -… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows. — 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
The relationship between executive CEO pay, stock performance is tenuous and not easily unscrambled, just one of myriad factors that affect the… — 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 it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
We need a mutual fund industry with both vision and values; a vision of fiduciary duty and shareholder service, and values rooted… — 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
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
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
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
It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at… — 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
“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
Regardless of what happens in the markets, stick to your investment program. Changing your strategy at the wrong time can be the… — 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
If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term? — 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
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
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
