15 Great Quotes for Passive Investing

Passive income is required if you want financial freedom. Here are the 15 best quotes for passive investing that can help you get a kickstart in becoming financially free

1. “Buy index funds. It might not seem like much action, but it’s the smartest thing to do.” — Charles Schwab
2. “The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.” — John Bogle
3. “Through the past thirty years more than two-thirds of professional portfolio managers have been outperformed by the unmanaged S&P 500 Index.” — Burton Malkiel
4. “An index fund dooms you to mediocrity? Absolutely not: It virtually guarantees you superior performance.” — William Bernstein
5. “The more investors do active trading, the more it makes sense to do passive investing.” — Naved Abdali
6. “Great rewards grow from small differences in cost.” — John Bogle
7. “Most individual investors would be better off in an index mutual fund.” — Peter Lynch
8. “Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.” — Eugene Fama
9. “Most active investors fail to realize that they are part of the crowd themselves. They are trying to beat the crowd while being the crowd.” — Naved Abdali
10. “Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.” — Bethany McLean
11. “For most of us, trying to beat the market leads to disastrous results.” — Jeremy Siegel
12. “I would rather be certain of a good return than hopeful of a great one.” — Warren Buffett
13. “They’re just not going to do it. It’s just not going to happen.”–Investors Can’t Beat the Market.” — Daniel Kahneman
14. “Don’t trade in and out of funds. Stay invested. Not only does buy-and-hold investing offer better returns, but it’s also less work.” — Eric Tyson
15. “Unless an investor has access to ‘incredibly high-qualified professionals,’ they should be 100 percent passive — that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.” — David F. Swensen