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Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

— Ron Chernow

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock…

— Ron Chernow

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

— John C. Bogle

Mutual funds charge 2% per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another 3-4 percentage points. The poor guy in the general…

— Charlie Munger

There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that…

— Benjamin Graham

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

— Ron Chernow

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

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

— Peter Lynch

Many financial innovations such as the increased availability of low-cost mutual funds have improved opportunities for households to participate in asset markets and diversify…

— Janet Yellen

The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.

— John C. Bogle

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

— Jessica Livingston

There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two,…

— Ron Chernow