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Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

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

Investor emotions plus fund industry promotions equal trouble.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

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 Bogle Filed in Investing

Over the short run, the fundamentals are often overwhelmed by the deafening noise of speculation
John Bogle Filed in Investing

Owning the stock market over the long term is a winner's game, but attempting to beat the market is a loser's game.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

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 Bogle Filed in Investing

The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the market is simply not credible.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

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.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.
John Bogle Filed in 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.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

The two greatest enemies of the equity fund investor are expenses and emotions.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

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.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

What may work for the few cannot work for the many.
John Bogle Filed in Investing

When there are multiple solutions to a problem, choose the simplest one.
John Bogle Filed in Investing


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