John C. Bogle Quotes

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• Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.
• On balance, the financial system subracts value from society
• The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what…
• Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!
• The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.
• If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.
• We need a mutual fund industry with both vision and values; a vision of fiduciary duty and shareholder service, and values rooted in the proven…
• It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.
• The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.
• I will create value for society, rather than extract it.
• Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.
• Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.
• If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

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