If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.
约翰·博格尔

全球最大的不收费基金家族、世界第二大基金管理公司先锋基金创始人,博格金融市场研究中心总裁,人称“指数基金教父”。

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

投资并不像看起来那么困难。成功的投资包括做正确的事情并避免严重错误。

You know the rule of 72, divide the number into 72, any number you want, and that’s how long it will take your money to double.

你知道 72 法则,将数字除以 72,你想要的任何数字,这就是你的钱翻倍需要多长时间。

The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force. To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

历史数据以不同寻常的力量支持了一个结论。要成功投资,您必须成为长期投资者。

The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don’t get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don’t pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.

因此,投资的严峻讽刺是,我们投资者作为一个群体不仅没有得到我们付出的东西,而且我们得到了我们没有得到的东西。因此,如果我们不付出任何代价,我们就会得到一切。

Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

你在投资方面的成功将部分取决于你的性格和胆量,部分取决于你在热情洋溢和绝望的深度意识到这一切也会过去的能力。

The mistakes we make as investors is when the market’s going up, we think it’s going to go up forever. When the market goes down, we think it’s going to go down forever. Neither of those things actually happen. Doesn’t do anything forever. It’s by the moment.

作为投资者,我们犯的错误是,当市场上涨时,我们认为它会永远上涨。当市场下跌时,我们认为它会永远下跌。这些事情实际上都没有发生。不会永远做任何事情。这是当下。

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

从某种意义上说,共同基金行业是建立在巫术之上的。

The winning formula for success in investing is owning the entire stock market through an index fund, and then doing nothing. Just stay the course.

投资成功的制胜法宝是通过指数基金拥有整个股票市场,然后什么都不做。只要坚持到底。

If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.

如果数据不能证明索引获胜,那么数据是错误的。

The courage to press on regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us, is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor.

无论我们面对平静的大海还是波涛汹涌的大海,尤其是当市场风暴在我们周围呼啸而过时,勇于坚持下去,是成功投资者的典型特征。

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks.

如果你很难想象股市会损失 20%,你就不应该在股票中。

Don’t think that you know more than the market. No one does. And don’t act on insights that you think are your own but are usually shared by millions of others.

不要以为你比市场知道得更多。没有人这样做。不要根据你认为是你自己的见解采取行动,但通常由数百万人分享。

Over the short run, however, the fundamentals are often overwhelmed by the deafening noise of speculation, the price at which the stock market values each dollar of earnings.

然而,在短期内,基本面往往被震耳欲聋的投机噪音所淹没,这是股市对每一美元收益进行估值的价格。

Before costs, beating the market is a zero-sum game. After costs, it is a loser’s game.

在成本之前,击败市场是一场零和游戏。在成本之后,这是一场失败者的游戏。

Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren’t actually earned by mutual fund investors.

惊喜!共同基金报告的回报实际上并不是共同基金投资者赚取的。

Where returns are concerned, time is your friend. But where costs are concerned, time is your enemy.

在回报方面,时间是你的朋友。但在成本方面,时间是你的敌人。