Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.

No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an operating theater and open a belly. And yet they think nothing of managing their retirement assets. I've done all three, and I'm here to tell you that managing money is, in its most critical elements even more demanding than the first two.

Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.

The purpose of investing is not to simply optimise returns and make yourself rich. The purpose is not to die poor.

Wall Street is littered with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do it.