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At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate. -- Bo Sanchez
It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are. -- Jim Cramer
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance. -- Ron Chernow
Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors. -- John C. Bogle
The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft. -- John C. Bogle
Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors. -- John C. Bogle
If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet. -- Charlie Munger
The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors. -- Jim Cramer
Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management. -- Barry Ritholtz
The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform. -- Ron Chernow
Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks. -- Ron Chernow
Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research. -- Peter Lynch
The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years. It's too short. -- Kenneth Fisher
Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks. -- Scott D. Cook
Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good. -- Bill Gross
Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good. -- Bill Gross
To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell. -- Suze Orman
There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so. -- Jim Cramer
I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification. -- Ron Chernow
Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud. -- Michael Lewis
Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in. -- Barry Ritholtz
Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors. -- Joel Spolsky
For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification. -- Alex Berenson
Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance. -- Barry Ritholtz
When you diversify your mutual funds, you are diversifying something that is already diversified. Diversifying mutual funds is like taking high octane gasoline & adding water & then adding orange juice to it. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror. -- Frank Gaffney
A mutual fund can do for you what you would do for yourself if you had sufficient time, training, and money to diversify, plus the temperament to stand back from your money and make rational decisions. -- Venita VanCaspel
What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers. -- Ron Chernow
If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. -- Robert Kiyosaki
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds or savings accounts? Income property is the most historically proven asset class in America, if not the entire world. I rest my case. -- Jason Hartman
There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you're never going to win big in a mutual fund. -- Robert Kiyosaki
In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress. -- Peter Lynch
I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons. -- Ron Chernow
You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor is it a certificate of deposit, ready for any new use at maturity. When you buy an annuity, you are making (or ought to be making) a 15- or 20-year commitment, at least. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry which enables investors' to indulge their suicidal instincts. No, the fund industry was hardly an innocent bystander in the market boom and the subsequent carnage. "We have met the enemy and he is us" . . . all of us. -- John C. Bogle
The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it's okay, because we can stay the course. -- Marc Andreessen
Mutual funds charge 2% per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another 3-4 percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals. I think it's disgusting. It's much better to be part of a system that delivers value to the people who buy the product. But if it makes money, we tend to do it in this country. -- Charlie Munger
Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%. -- Charles R. Schwab
Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors. -- Mark Hulbert
Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero. -- William J. Bernstein
The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will. -- Kenneth C. Griffin
A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance. -- Michael LeBoeuf
Bulls make money and bears make money, but pigs seldom do. When a stock or mutual fund is up 30%, sell one-quarter of your position. -- Nancy Dunnan
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True love is unconditional. And if it is a 'Conditions Apply' scenari, then it isn't true love. It is as good as a mutual fund... -- Ravinder Singh
I've not found ! one single mutual fund, one single real estate investment, any gold, silver or anything else that has given me higher returns than: me investing in myself. -- Patrick Bet-David
I thought a company that provides mutual-fund information could be a great business, because you could construct an effective moat by building large financial databases and customer lists and a strong brand name. -- Joe Mansueto

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