Effort Quote by Michael LeBoeuf

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

I like Burton Malkiel's 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street.' He comes to the same conclusion that I do - that indexing is the…

— John C. Bogle

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

— Peter Lynch

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

— Warren Buffett

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

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

— Carl Nassib

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

Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing…

— Mark Hulbert

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

An index fund is a fund that simply invests in all of the stocks in a market. So, for example, an index fund might…

— William J. Bernstein

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

— James O'Shaughnessy