“Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for that matter, the world's - corporations.” WorldMatterNationsGrowthSuccessfulHugeRewardsInvestingCorporationsEarningDividendsSuccessful Investing Book:The John C. Bogle Reader Source: The John C. Bogle Reader
“The returns we read about in the industry sales literature vastly diminish when we move from the theoretical world of market indexes to the real world of actually investing.” WorldRealMovingLiteratureReal WorldTheoretical Author:John C. Bogle
“I'm not an expert on Islam, but I think there are lots of noble religions whose basic principles could stand considerably more observation in the world of business.” ThinkingWorldIslamObservation Author:John C. Bogle
“I think it's fairly easy to provide a moral defense of capitalism. It has been - over the last 200 years - the underlying basis for enormous increases in productivity and human welfare and rising living standards, particularly in the United States, and in the industrialized nations but in fact, in most parts of the world.” ThinkingWorldEasyMoralCapitalismProductivityWelfare Author:John C. Bogle
“Thomas Aquinas defined the human soul as the core of our being, and the power that brings our characteristics into unity so the soul of capitalism - in its own temporal world as contrasted to the spiritual world of human beings - is what defines the core of the system and the factors that unify to produce the wonderful world that we are blessed to live in.” WorldSoulSpiritualWonderfulCapitalismBlessedUnityHuman Soul Author:John C. Bogle
“We live in a very risky world and investors should not get "carried away" with excessive allocations to equities, or for that matter, real estate. As always asset allocation and low cost and broad diversification will be essential in earning one's fair share of whatever returns our financial markets are generous enough to bestow upon us.” WorldRealEnoughShareFinancialGenerousInvestorsEquity Author:John C. Bogle
