“I was never the type who had a particular ambition. I had friends in c...” — John C. Bogle Quote

“I was never the type who had a particular ambition. I had friends in college who would say, 'I want to be a vice president by the time I'm 35 years old.' A lot of people had these career plans. I didn't have any. I thought if I did my best, good things would happen.”

“Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.”

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

“The Vanguard Experiment was designed to prove that mutual funds could operate independently, and do so in a manner that would directly benefit their shareholders.”

“Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack.”

“The culture of the mutual fund industry, when I came into it in 1951, was pretty much a culture of fiduciary duty and investment, with funds run by investment professionals. The firm I worked with, Wellington Management Co., they had one fund. That was very typical in the industry... investment professionals focused on long-term investing.”

“I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.”

“Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.”

“A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.”

“By the time I was a teenager, I weighed 400 pounds.”

“You know what, it's a time honored tradition in movies in America that if you kill enough people in your 30s and 40s and 50s that by the time you get into your 60s you become loveable.”

“I knew a lot about the Coen Brothers by the time I was 12 or 13.”