"The grim irony of investing, then, is that……" — 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 what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything."
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John C. Bogle
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13 Quotes by John C. Bogle
John C. Bogle has 13 quotes on this site.
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Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations,…
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On balance, the financial system subracts value from society
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Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!
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The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.
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If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.
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We need a mutual fund industry with both vision and values; a vision of fiduciary duty and shareholder service, and…
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It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to…
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The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.
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I will create value for society, rather than extract it.
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Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.
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Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.
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If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
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More Get Everything Quotes
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You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things…
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When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when…
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