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
Net return is simply the gross return of your investment portfolio less the costs you incur. Keep your investment expenses low, for… — 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 returns we read about in the industry sales literature vastly diminish when we move from the theoretical world of market indexes… — 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
We live in a very risky world and investors should not get "carried away" with excessive allocations to equities, or for that… — 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 culture of the mutual fund industry, when I came into it in 1951, was pretty much a culture of fiduciary duty… — 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
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
Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong. — 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
Sure there are some companies at the margins of our society that probably do that and I think we all have the… — 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
When our financial system - essentially our money managers, marketers of investment products and stockbrokers - put up zero percent of the… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The courage to press on regardless - regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it… — 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
I've usually used the phrase 'stay the course' as one of the great rules of investment success. — 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 the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong. — 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
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
