Fund Quote by John C. Bogle Download Open image “Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.” — John C. Bogle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fund Investing Investors Management Managers Select Superiors
I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund.… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course,… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Millions of mutual-fund investors sleep well at night, serene in the belief that superior outcomes result from pooling funds with like-minded investors and engaging… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
The debate can be put in the form of the question: Resolved, that the best of money managers cannot be demonstrated to be able… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I think there are probably too many hedge fund managers in the world, as well as active fund managers. The hedge fund industry is… — Martin Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think corporate managers should learn to be better investors because it would make them better managers. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so. — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
The basic idea of retirement income is, to me, to get a check, two checks every month, one from your fixed income and one… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
When you're young, you've got plenty of time to recover from your mistakes. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I almost hate to say how proud I am of my career and, most of all, helping folks get the returns they deserve. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The Vanguard Experiment was designed to prove that mutual funds could operate independently, and do so in a manner that would directly benefit their… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Learning is to the Studious, and Riches to the Careful. If a man empties his… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I liked the so-called Volcker Rule. I would have separated investment banking and commercial, deposit banking, as we did under the Glass-Steagal Act. I… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
We make too much out of past performance, and it's very misleading to investors. It causes them to move money around. They buy a… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
It's very difficult for any particular segment of the stock market to sustain superior performance. The watch word for our financial markets is, "reversion… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I do think that impact investing is not that effective. Shares go from investor A to investor B, and the company doesn't even know… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I was born in an earlier generation and, as a group, my classmates at Blair Academy and Princeton University were as ethical, straightforward, and… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The only issue cash presents you is the independence of not stressing about funds. — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
When we started Appaloosa, we were going to name it Pegasus because everyone was using Greek names. We filed the name. We paid $300,… — David Tepper Copy Share Image
The Indians didn't help me in dealing with the media. I think they wanted to keep my market value down. I'm moody. I know… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
I still remember playing my first Challenger tournament in Hong Kong in 1990, and the prize fund was $50,000. — Tim Henman Copy Share Image
It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors. — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big… — Lisa Gansky Copy Share Image
Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research… — Benedict Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image