John C. Bogle Quotes

I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

Eliminate emotion from your investment program.

We have never shied away from making investments. Even during downcycles, we never stopped our investments.

I've usually used the phrase 'stay the course' as one of the great rules of investment success.

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.

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

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

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters - or anyone - bringing gifts of 'inside' information or tips. Don't try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.

The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage.

Patience is one of the most valuable attributes in investing.

You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating.

Doing ventures is great - I'm talking economics now - if you've got a rising market. It's wonderful. If I hadn't got HKT, I would have been just as happy. Because there's a price for everything. And to overpay for something is awful.

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.