Index Funds Quotes

#1. The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.

Andrea Bocelli

#2. Doing good induces others to reciprocate.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#3. You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.

Margaret Mead

#4. Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.

Louis Navellier

#5. Librarians are the bedrock of the public domain and the defenders of our fundamental right to access knowledge.

Carl Malamud

#6. Grace gave her a gentle smile. You know what the answer is, don't you? Chocolate. It's always the answer, no matter the question.

Suzanne Wright

#7. There are many beautiful songs but I do not dedicate any of them to you because they do not describe the infinite love I feel for you. It is better that I tell you that myself, that I love you with all my strength. Have a happy birthday.

Auliq Ice

#8. Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.

Charles R. Schwab

#9. He's right and I'm pissed. I'm mad because I'm no longer a Jawbreaker. I'm more of a Gummy Bear or a friggin' Laffy Taffy.

Tracey Ward

#10. Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

John C. Bogle

#11. I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

Cassandra Clare

#12. A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.

David F. Swensen

#13. The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So it's getting worse, the deterioration by professionals is getting worse. The public would be better off in an index fund.

Peter Lynch

#14. After adjusting the comparison of index funds to actively managed funds for survivorship bias, taxes, and loads, the dominance of index funds reaches insurmountable proportions. Once

Charles D. Ellis

#15. Building a portfolio around index funds isn't really settling for the average. It's just refusing to believe in magic.

Bethany McLean

#16. I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor's best friend and Wall Street's worst nightmare.

Jonathan Clements

#17. I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.

Myron Scholes

#18. She had always asked him what, exactly, he was training for.
Now she knew.

Terri Blackstock

#19. My ears were once pierced, but the tiny holes have since resealed through lack of penetration. And yes, there's another analogy in there, but let's not get off topic.

Virginia Franken

#20. A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

Tommy Cooper

#21. I'm more worried about being dead than lost, Detective.

Brian M. Holmes

#22. We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance.

Roger G. Ibbotson

#23. Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

Burton Malkiel