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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
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John C. Bogle
Age: 89 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 8
Died: 2019
Died: January 16
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Montclair Township
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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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I would always advise young people to follow their star - not my star. They have to live their own life. If they decide they want to go into the investment business, do it, but make it a better business than it is today.
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The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.
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In Las Vegas we all know that it's the croupiers who win. At the race track, it's those who control the handle who win. State lotteries, does anybody think the participants in the lottery win? No. The state wins.
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I will create value for society, rather than extract it.
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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.
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Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.
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If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?
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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.
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On balance, the financial system subracts value from society
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Capitalism is not a Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is a scheme of free markets.
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If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.
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If it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate
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