Active Quote by Jim Rogers

Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole…

— Burton Malkiel

Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing…

— Mark Hulbert

After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means…

— Eugene Fama

Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.

— Tony Robbins

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

It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being…

— Warren Buffett

Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance…

— David F. Swensen

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

— Warren Buffett

With long-term investing, index funds are a great tool.

— Carl Nassib

Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.

— Barry Ritholtz

Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence,…

— Paul Samuelson

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

— Bill Gross