In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.
“In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.”
— John C. Bogle · Elusive
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In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.
“In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.”
— John C. Bogle · Elusive
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“In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.”
“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've been studying mutual funds since 1949, when I began researching my senior thesis at Princeton University.”
“In investing, you get what you don't pay for. Costs matter. So intelligent investors will use low-cost index funds to build a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds, and they will stay the course. And they won't be foolish enough to think that they can consistently outsmart the market.”
“Regardless of what happens in the markets, stick to your investment program. Changing your strategy at the wrong time can be the single most devastating mistake you can make as an investor.”
“If you were to just design the perfect retirement plan, you would own the stock market or you would own the bond market. You would get all the costs or all that you possibly could out of the system. So on an annual basis, if the market went up 8 percent, you would get 7.8 or 7.9 percent.”
“We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?”
“Everything in life is elusive.”
“I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.”
“There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I don't know if I'm always going to be able to. I want to write songs forever, but it's an elusive thing.”
“Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience.”
“Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.”