Common sense Quote by John C. Bogle

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

The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.

— James O'Shaughnessy

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

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

— Carl Nassib

I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor’s best friend and Wall Street’s worst nightmare.

— Jonathan Clements

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

A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many…

— Warren Buffett

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

— Peter Lynch

Never index your own book.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Wise Investing series is a collection of stories and analogies designed to demonstrate that the winning investment strategy is a simple, elegant,”

— Larry Swedroe

“Wise Investing series is a collection of stories and analogies designed to demonstrate that the winning”

— Larry Swedroe

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