John C. Bogle Quotes

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• Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

  John C. Bogle

  Looks, Investment, Financial Success

  John C. Bogle (2010). “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns”, p.74, John Wiley & Sons

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• Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

  John C. Bogle

  Enemy, Siren Song, Impulse

  John C. Bogle (2012). “The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation”, p.234, John Wiley & Sons

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

  John C. Bogle

  Data, Long, Support

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

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• Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!

  John C. Bogle

  Cheaper

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• In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.

  John C. Bogle

  Running, Long, Investing

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• Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

  John C. Bogle

  Life, Motivational, Perseverance

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.112, John Wiley & Sons

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• Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

  John C. Bogle

  Risk, Investing, Individual

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• Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

  John C. Bogle

  Mistake, Successful, Looks

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• If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

  John C. Bogle

  Money, Loss, Investing

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• The mistakes we make as investors is when the market's going up, we think it's going to go up forever. When the market goes down, we think it's going to go down forever. Neither of those things actually happen. Doesn't do anything forever. It's by the moment.

  John C. Bogle

  Mistake, Thinking, Forever

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• Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

  John C. Bogle

  Character, Despair, Depth

  John C. Bogle (2015). “Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives For The Intelligent Investor”, p.242, John Wiley & Sons

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• Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture.

  John C. Bogle

  Way, Firsts, Emotion

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• Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it forever and enjoys the returns that U.S. businesses, and to some extent global businesses, have earned since the beginning of time. Speculation is betting on price. Speculation has no place in the portfolio or the kit of the typical investor.

  John C. Bogle

  Forever, Typical, Return

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• Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

  John C. Bogle

  Business, Mean, Iron

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• The courage to press on regardless - regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us - is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor.

  John C. Bogle

  Successful, Sea, Storm

  "A Tale of Two Markets". Speech at the Trinity University Policymaker Breakfast Series, www.vanguard.com. April 16, 2001.

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• The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. Mutual funds charge two percent per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another three to four percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals.

  John C. Bogle

  Years, Two, People

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• I believe - deeply and profoundly - that speculation is a loser's game.

  John C. Bogle

  Believe, I Believe, Speculation

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

  John C. Bogle

  Mutual Fund, Witchcraft, Built

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.440, John Wiley & Sons

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• The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.

  John C. Bogle

  Miracle, Cost, Investing

  "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns". Book by John C. Bogle, 2007.

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• The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

  John C. Bogle

  Giants, Investing, Distraction

  "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns". Book by John C. Bogle, 2007.

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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 understand it.

  John C. Bogle

  Men, Investing, Fortune

  John C. Bogle (2012). “The John C. Bogle Reader”, p.1130, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's very difficult for any particular segment of the stock market to sustain superior performance. The watch word for our financial markets is, "reversion to the mean" i.e. what goes up must come down, and it's true more often than you can imagine.

  John C. Bogle

  Mean, Financial, Imagine

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You know the rule of 72, divide the number into 72, any number you want, and that's how long it will take your money to double.

  John C. Bogle

  Numbers, Long, Want

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• 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.

  John C. Bogle

  Groups, Investing, Pay

  John C. Bogle (2010). “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons

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• Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.

  John C. Bogle

  Hints, Investing, Flow

  John C. Bogle (2012). “The John C. Bogle Reader”, p.1137, John Wiley & Sons

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