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Finally embracing the indexing lessons Jack Bogle—the founder of The Vanguard Group and the inventor of index funds—perfected 40 years ago.
JL Collins • The Simple Path to Wealth
Avoid complexity and rely on simplicity and parsimony, and your investments should flourish.
John C. Bogle • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (Little Books. Big Profits)
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 C. Bogle • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (Little Books. Big Profits)
Warren Buffett puts the moral of his story this way: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.
John C. Bogle • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (Little Books. Big Profits)
Andy began to read some investment books. He liked Benjamin Graham’s classic, The Intelligent Investor. Ben Graham taught at Columbia University. His best student was Warren Buffett, the man who many people consider to be the greatest investor of all time. Late in his life, Ben Graham also supported the index fund concept, much as Warren Buffett do
... See moreAndrew Hallam • Millionaire Teacher
Costs make the difference between investment success and investment failure. So, sharpen your pencils. Do your own arithmetic. Realize that you are not consigned to playing the hyperactive management game that is played by the overwhelming majority of individual investors and mutual fund owners alike. The low-cost index fund is there to guarantee t
... See moreJohn C. Bogle • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (Little Books. Big Profits)
If the managers take nothing, the investors receive everything: the market’s return.
John C. Bogle • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (Little Books. Big Profits)
Above all, remember (again, courtesy of Warren Buffett), “What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.” Or, as the Oracle of Omaha sometimes expresses it, “There are three i’s in every cycle: first the innovator, then the imitator, and finally the idiot.” No matter what fund managers may offer you, don’t you be the idiot.
John C. Bogle • Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.”