159 Quotes by John C. Bogle

There no longer can be any doubt that the creation of the first index mutual fund was the most successful innovation - especially for investors - in modern financial history.

The long-term focus of index funds is a much needed counterweight to the short-termism favored by so many market participants.

I spend about half of my time wondering why I have so much in stocks and about half wondering why I have so little.

We do some things for family reasons. If it's not consistent, well, life isn't always consistent.

If the job of capitalism is to create wealth for those who put up the capital, no fund group comes close to Vanguard's success in serving its owners. So we're probably as far away from communism as is realistically possible.

I had done some work on index funds in my senior thesis at Princeton in 1951.