John C. Bogle Quotes

The best investments are the easiest ones to approve.

Profitability is the only way to control your own investments.

I don't think you should put all your money in one place. It must be invested in different investments.

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

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

I've learned that all investments have risk.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

I seek individual investments that will allow me to target total portfolio returns of at least 20% annually after fees and expenses on an annual basis over a period of years, not months.

I'm not looking for hobbies, I'm looking for investments.

My favourite holdings are Vanguard's Wellington Fund, a balanced mutual fund which is a legacy investment from my first career at Wellington Management Co., and the Vanguard 500 Index Fund.

I don't like to discuss my investments.

As a company, we are not interested only in investments.

If the fluctuations in your investment portfolio are reduced, the impact of emotions and behavior on your account is also reduced.

If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.

Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.

I like to invest in companies where I can really add value from my experience, network, etc., so checking out my portfolio of other investments, and my background, will generally give some guidance there.

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.

In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.

The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!

First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.

Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.