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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
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John C. Bogle
Age: 89 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 8
Died: 2019
Died: January 16
Economist
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Investor
Montclair Township
John Clifton Jack Bogle
Jack Bogle
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Time is your friend impulse is your enemy.
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The business has some problems, substantial problems. You go fix it, you young people. That's what you're there for. Don't believe what the old generation tells you. We don't know a damn thing, including Bogle.
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I think it's gone much too far. Most of them are not worth the powder to blow them to hell.
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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 relationship between executive CEO pay, stock performance is tenuous and not easily unscrambled, just one of myriad factors that affect the price of a stock.
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I will create value for society, rather than extract it.
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On balance, the financial system subracts value from society
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Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.
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If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.
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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.
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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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I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!
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Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry which enables investors to indulge their suicidal instincts. No, the fund industry was hardly an innocent bystander in the market boom and the subsequent carnage. We have met the enemy and he is us... all of us.
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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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But whatever the consensus on the EMH, I know of no serious academic, professional money manager, trained security analyst, or intelligent individual investor who would disagree with the thrust of EMH: The stock market itself is a demanding taskmaster. It sets a high hurdle that few investors can leap.
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The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.
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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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Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.
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The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.
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