“Net return is simply the gross return of your investment portfolio les...” — John C. Bogle Quote

“Net return is simply the gross return of your investment portfolio less the costs you incur. Keep your investment expenses low, for the tyranny of compounding costs can devastate the miracle of compounding returns.”

“The average hedge fund manager is going to earn zero per cent in extra return.”

“Our financial system is driven by a giant marketing machine in which the interests of sellers directly conflict with the interests of buyers.”

“My favourite holdings are Vanguard's Wellington Fund, a balanced mutual fund which is a legacy investment from my first career at Wellington Management Co., and the Vanguard 500 Index Fund.”

“Glen Weyl is a good friend of mine.”

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

“Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.”

“Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.”

“The time to save for the future is now. Thanks to compounding interest, the earlier you start putting money away for the future, the more you will save.”

“Compounding Iraq's problem is that its economy is highly dependent on oil.”

“The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.”

“It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.”