“I like Burton Malkiel's 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street.' He comes to ...” — John C. Bogle Quote

“I like Burton Malkiel's 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street.' He comes to the same conclusion that I do - that indexing is the way. My 'Little Book of Common Sense Investing' says pretty much the same thing.”

“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.”

“I think high turnover is definitively the investor's enemy, so you don't want to bring a high-turnover philosophy to this business. You want to have a long-term philosophy.”

“When a door closes, if you look long enough and hard enough, if you're strong enough, you'll find a window that opens.”

“The malfeasance and misjudgments by our corporate, financial and government leaders, declining ethical standards, and the failure of our new agency society reflect a failure of capitalism.”

“A fiduciary standard means, basically, put the interests of the client first. No excuses. Period.”

“Polyester, one of the most common fibers, is a plastic derived from crude oil. The long fibers that make up polyester thread are woven together to make fabric. Extracting the oil and melting the plastic require energy.”

“Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.”

“Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.”

“The U.S. relationship with the Palestinians is a limited, one-way street for a number of reasons, one prominently being a lack of common moral values.”

“Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.”

“There's certain stock lines that, you know, like heckler lines, you know, like, where did you learn to whisper, a helicopter, you know? Nobody owns those. I mean, someone first wrote it but it's been so universally used that it's common and it's called stock.”