Average Quote by James O'Shaughnessy

Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager…

— Patrick Geddes

The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.

— Daniel Kahneman

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 like Burton Malkiel's 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street.' He comes to the same conclusion that I do - that indexing is the…

— John C. Bogle

Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

— Bethany McLean

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

— Warren Buffett

You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average…

— Robert Kiyosaki

To value investors the concept of indexing is at best silly and at worst quite hazardous. Warren Buffett has observed that "in any sort…

— Seth Klarman

Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time or effort-and…

— Michael LeBoeuf

Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.

— Jim Rogers

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