Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors.
John C. BogleThe miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.
John C. BogleI 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.
John C. Bogle