Average Quote by Charlie Munger

An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't…

— Warren Buffett

Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.

— John Paulson

The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years. It's too short.

— Kenneth Fisher

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

— Kenneth Fisher

“Over the 210 years I have examined stock returns, the real return on a broadly diversified portfolio of stocks has averaged 6.6 percent per year.”

— Jeremy J. Siegel

“At the end of World War II, the average holding period for a stock was four years. By 2000, it was eight months. By…

— Scott Patterson

“From 1977 to 1987, our average annual return to investors was 46 percent. And even in the middle of the recession, in 1991, we…

— Sam Walton

The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So it's getting…

— Peter Lynch

If you were to just design the perfect retirement plan, you would own the stock market or you would own the bond market. You…

— John C. Bogle

If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving…

— Robert Haugen

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

A decade ago, I really did believe that the average investor could do it himself. I was wrong. I've come to the sad conclusion…

— William J. Bernstein