Focus Quote by John C. Bogle

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

— Carl Nassib

Our standard prescription for the know-nothing investor with a long-term time horizon is a no-load index fund. I think that works better than relying…

— Charlie Munger

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

— Peter Lynch

The key aspect of an index fund is that many of them, not all of them, but many of them are extremely cheap.

— William J. Bernstein

Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial…

— Burton Malkiel

Plenty of funds have fine long-term returns despite being tax-inefficient and generally costly. But a dirty secret is this: Average, no-load fund investors do…

— Kenneth Fisher

... skepticism about past returns is crucial. The truth is, much as you may wish you could know which funds will be hot, you…

— Bethany McLean

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

The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions.

— Tim Cook

Nothing is simpler than owning the stock market and holding it forever, and that's essentially the idea behind the index fund.

— John C. Bogle

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

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