John C. Bogle Quotes

There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible.

Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders.

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

In college, I was told the market can't be beat.

I'm sometimes accused of being hostile to mutual funds. That's not fair, really. There is a place for them. Still, I am hostile to one thing, which is trying to use funds to time your way in and out of the market. That's a recipe for very bad results.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

You don't make money when you buy stocks. And you don't make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.

I'm going to reveal the grand secret to getting rich by investing. It's a simple formula that has worked for Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn and all the greatest investment gurus over the years. Ready? Buy low, sell high.

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

Market timing doesn't work. If all the bubbles and all this mispricing really exist, how come so few people see it before it turns out that way?

Wise investors won't try to outsmart the market.

We call ourselves 'opportunistic value investors.'

99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.

It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.

Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker.

I never ask if the market is going to go up or down because I don't know, and besides it doesn't matter. I search nation after nation for stocks, asking: 'Where is the one that is lowest-priced in relation to what I believe it's worth?' Forty years of experience have taught me you can make money without ever knowing which way the market is going.

I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

Regardless of what we think we know and should happen the reality is that a lot of stock action is random. Therefore, money management is crucial if you want to be successful as a trader. To me, it's the cornerstone of both making a living at trading and building wealth.