Average Quote by John C. Bogle

Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because…

— Daniel L. Doctoroff

Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a…

— Peter Lynch

Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the stock market is simply not credible. After…

— John C. Bogle

The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

— John C. Bogle

I believe that the behavior of too many of our corporations investment bankers and fund managers has jeopardized some of the trust that investors…

— John C. Bogle

Wise investors won't try to outsmart the market.

— John C. Bogle

Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry which enables…

— John C. Bogle

But whatever the consensus on the EMH, I know of no serious academic, professional money manager, trained security analyst, or intelligent individual investor who…

— John C. Bogle

We need to reorganize our entire system of retirement plan investing and to develop federal standards of fiduciary duty for pension trustees and fund…

— John C. Bogle

The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely…

— John C. Bogle

Our capitalistic scheme in the latter years of the 20th century seems to have lost its way. We've had a "pathalogical change" from traditional…

— John C. Bogle