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John C Bogle: Time and impulse

“Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.”

—John C Bogle. 

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John C Bogle: Subtracts value from society

“On balance, the financial system subracts value from society.”

—John C. Bogle, Enough.: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life. 

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John C Bogle: Grim irony of investing

“The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don’t get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don’t pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.” 

—John C. Bogle, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns. 

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John C Bogle: More of a profession, less of a business

“First, put the client’s interest ahead of your own, and, one day at a time, help to make this field of investing more of a profession and less of a business. Second, learn every day, but especially learn from the experiences of others. It’s cheaper! And third, never, never lose your idealism, no matter how rough your career might be, and never lose faith in your nation.”

—John C Bogle. 

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John C Bogle: Small fortune

“It’s amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he’s paid a small fortune not to understand it.”

—John C Bogle. 

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John C Bogle: Can't be measured

John C Bogle: Can’t be measured

“As I have earlier noted, the most important things in life and in business can’t be measured. The trite bromide ‘If you can measure it, you can manage it’ has been a hindrance in the building a great real-world organization, just as it has been a hindrance in evaluating the real-world economy. It is character, not numbers, that make the world go ‘round. How can we possibly measure the qualities…

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