John C. Bogle Quotes

Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.

There is a growing distrust of the market and a feeling that Wall Street is a crooked casino where the house always wins. Yes, the game is rigged.

Everyone failed to appreciate that our sophisticated, hypermodern, highly hedged, derivative-based financial system—how ultimately fragile it really was.

When the financial system works as it should, money and capital flow to and from households and businesses to pay for home loans, school loans, and investments to create jobs.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can't get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

Our financial system is driven by a giant marketing machine in which the interests of sellers directly conflict with the interests of buyers.

Looting is the only way left for the Western financial system to make money.

We oppose a system that generates huge wealth through astonishing innovation but is fatally unable to distribute fairly and provide universal access to its spoils.

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.

The financial crisis revealed important weaknesses in many areas of our financial system.

You cannot have the financial system crippled because of lack of decision making and lack of quality people.

The higher the risk, the higher the reward.

Taxing financial markets, promoting research and development, and mobilising investments: that means learning our lessons from the financial market crisis and changing our focus.

We take dispassionate view of our investments. Does it mean that we are looking out to monetise the investment? That is not correct. But if we get an offer that we cannot refuse, as I say, then it is not that we are not, that we will still hold on to the investment.

Net return is simply the gross return of your investment portfolio less the costs you incur. Keep your investment expenses low, for the tyranny of compounding costs can devastate the miracle of compounding returns.

Wall Street has been beset with problems. The cycle of greed and personal aggrandizement and lifestyle grandstanding is an affront to any American.

Profitability is the only way to control your own investments.

We must learn the lessons of the 2008 crash: no company should be able to become too big to fail.

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

In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.

Our investors are here for only one reason: great returns. They want to make money.

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

I have a real estate development company. I have investments in all sorts of things, and I dabble all over the place.

In the wake of the 2008 recession, Congress and the Obama Administration rightly focused financial regulation on protecting the nation's financial system from itself.

Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.