Bad performance Quote by 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

All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market

— Nick Murray

Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of…

— Thomas Sowell

With actively managed funds, people have big behavior problems. With funds that have done well, they put their money in, and when it has…

— John C. Bogle

When the money goes bad, everything else goes bad.

— Bernard von NotHaus

Mutual funds with superior performance records often falter.

— John C. Bogle

A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere…

— Jack Welch

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

A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds…

— David F. Swensen

Everyone is always running after the money. But where is this money going?

— Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

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

Money is not gained by losing time.

— Anonymous