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The index fund is a most unlikely hero for the typical investor. It is no more (nor less) than a broadly diversified portfolio, typically run at rock-bottom costs, without the putative benefit of a brilliant, resourceful, and highly skilled portfolio manager.
The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.
The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.
The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.
The true investor will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operating results of his companies.
The two greatest enemies of the equity fund investor are expenses and emotions.
The winning formula for success in investing is owning the entire stock market through an index fund, and then doing nothing. Just stay the course.
Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.
What may work for the few cannot work for the many.
When there are multiple solutions to a problem, choose the simplest one.
Where returns are concerned, time is your friend. But where costs are concerned, time is your enemy.
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.
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.
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