The average hedge fund manager is going to earn zero per cent in extra return. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The fund scandals shined the spotlight on the fact that mutual fund managers were putting their interests ahead of the fund shareholders… — 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
Entrepreneurs or international conglomerateurs, or large financial institutions buy or create mutual fund management companies to create a return on their own… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
We need to reorganize our entire system of retirement plan investing and to develop federal standards of fiduciary duty for pension trustees… — 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 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 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 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
Among my greatest disappointments about the mutual fund industry - in addition to excessive costs and excessive focus on the short-term -… — 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
Vanguard never would have happened if I hadn't been fired as CEO of Wellington Management Company, the firm that did the investing… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I believe Washington should be a more active participant focusing on the issue of why corporate shareholders and mutual fund shareholders 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
