Passive Investing Quotes & Sayings

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

Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. — Merton Miller

This book does not agree with this view. It cannot be assumed that efficient asset allocation will result if investment decisions are made by the investing equivalent of kelp and plankton of the marine food chain - uneducated passive reactors whose goal in investing is to outperform a market consistently. — Martin J. Whitman

Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip. — Charles R. Schwab

The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win. — Warren Buffett

The word passive does a disservice to investors considering their options. Indexing provides an effective means of owning the market and allows investors to participate in the returns of a basket of stocks. The basket of stocks changes over time as stocks are added or removed based on its rules. — Charles R. Schwab

Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive investments is guilty of malfeasance, nonfeasance or some other kind of bad feasance! — Merton Miller