It's very difficult for any particular segment of the stock market to sustain superior performance. The watch word for our financial markets is, "reversion to the mean" i.e. what goes up must come down, and it's true more often than you can imagine.
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks. - John C. Bogle
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
- John C. Bogle
The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor. - John C. Bogle
The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.
Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper! - John C. Bogle
Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!
Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the … - John C. Bogle
Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the …
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains. - John C. Bogle
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.
The mistakes we make as investors is when the market's going up, we think it's going to go up forever. When the market goes down, we think it's going… - John C. Bogle
The mistakes we make as investors is when the market's going up, we think it's going to go up forever. When the market goes down, we think it's going…
Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture. - John C. Bogle
Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture.
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, pati… - John C. Bogle
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, pati…
Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy. - John C. Bogle
Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.
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