Average Quote by Bethany McLean

... skepticism about past returns is crucial. The truth is, much as you may wish you could know which funds will be hot, you…

— Bethany McLean

“If you only want to make average market returns, then scale your positions to a very small size, and your portfolio will act very…

— Gil Morales

The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.

— James O'Shaughnessy

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

— Peter Lynch

In investing, you get what you don't pay for. Costs matter. So intelligent investors will use low-cost index funds to build a diversified portfolio…

— John C. Bogle

I don't see any magic in hedge funds.

— John C. Bogle

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

— Warren Buffett

Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's…

— Jonathan Davis

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

— Paul Wolfowitz

If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in…

— Warren Buffett

Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial…

— Burton Malkiel

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