John C. Bogle Quotes

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.

My parents manage my money, though growing up I was very hands on with investments and made all the decisions, even on behalf of my parents.

When you first come in the NBA, you have a lot of conversations about saving your money, financially educating yourself, not just trusting whoever it is handling your money, not just having those meetings once a year, and not really putting the effort into learning the same way you learn your craft on the court.

I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.

I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.

I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.

Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.

I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

He that is rich is wise.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

Youth should be a savings bank.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

My accountant worships me because I'm so cautious with my money.

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.