John C. Bogle Quotes

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

It's critical to have a disciplined investing approach and stick with it.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

It doesn't help to follow every rise and fall of your portfolio. It's better to tune out the day-to-day shifts, in fact. But getting a handle on the larger picture will make you feel more secure, and that goes a long way in calming your fear.

The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions.

With poker, you have a resolution of the hand within a couple of minutes. Whereas, even if the thought process in investing is very much the same, you're looking at an outcome that could be 2, 3, 4, 5 years from when you make the original decision. And the mindset related to that is very different.

Investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting.

I told myself after my football career was over that if I ever started making good money again, I would invest it wisely.

I always say investors invest in lines, not dots.

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.