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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!
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
John Clifton Jack Bogle
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I believe that the behavior of too many of our corporations investment bankers and fund managers has jeopardized some of the trust that investors have had. It's not the economic engine that we need to focus on, but the need to make sure that our investors receive their fair share of the returns that that great economic system produces.
John C. Bogle
Corporate leaders surely have their problems, I believe that most CEOs are doing their best to hew to the ethical line. The problem is that that line has gotten blurred and that our moral standard seems to be if everybody else is doing it, it's okay. That's not good enough for me.
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The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.
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On balance, the financial system subracts value from society
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If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?
John C. Bogle
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
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.
John C. Bogle
Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate.
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Sure there are some companies at the margins of our society that probably do that and I think we all have the responsibility as consumers and as investors to avoid them like the plague. If we do, they won't last very long. Doing what's right is the only possible formula for long-term - I emphasize long term - business success.
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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.
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Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.
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I believe that the mutual fund industry's biggest shortcoming is too much focus on the momentary price of a stock - an illusion - and too little focus on the intrinsic value of the corporation - the ultimate reality. I'm comforted by the fact that Warren Buffett feels the same way.
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Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.
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If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.
John C. Bogle
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.
John C. Bogle
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
The transfer of Wall Street from private ownership to public ownership has been a big step backward.
John C. Bogle
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
If it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate
John C. Bogle
Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.
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