The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

I found Bogle’s advice compelling enough to check out Bogleheads.org. It is a collection of people who feel Bogle is spot on in his investing ideas. Go there for more info and to ask questions. Very worthwhile.

I recommend this book if you want to a good investment future.

My spouse was really starting to ask me a few too many questions about investing in the stock market ever since the pandemic started. It's actually caused me to seek help from a psychologist. Finally, I decided to just buy this book for my wife's birthday. She was so happy to get it. However, she wasn't reading it... At all! So my daughter picked it up one day and wrapped it up again and gave it to her boyfriend for his birthday! So I purchased another copy for my spouse, and left it near the dining room table. Now every time my wife asks me an investment question, I point to the book. It's been an incredible tool in this regard. And the red cover!! It's excellent!! It's hard to lose the book. It's so visible and easy to point at whenever questions about investing arise, I just point at the book. It's been awesome!! And it's mainly about how to avoid fees, value investing through index funds...common sense investing stuff. It's beautiful! And I've heard that my daughter's boyfriend is actually reading the book and is learning a lot and loving it. My psychological issues have disappated and I'm no longer needing talk therapy. I love this book! Buy the book! It's brilliant! Especially for people who refuse to read and just ask annoying questions, or a person getting into investing for the first time.

A solid introduction to investing with timeless principles like focusing on index funds, minimizing costs, and sticking to the long term. The book emphasizes common sense strategies over chasing trends or stock-picking. While some examples feel a bit outdated, the core message—keep it simple and stay disciplined—still holds strong today.

This book dives deep into index funds and the do's and donts of the investment world. Read it in just 7 days. Great information for the new investor or someone who wants to freshen up on their lingo.

I started learning about the stock market in Jan 2025. I'm self-teaching off YouTube but this book is exactly what I've been needing because all the data (definitions) were still overlapping and confusing. As in what's more important, expense ratio or growth rate, etc. I wanted the bottom line of where to begin as a measuring stick on what is considered good or bad (low or high). This is such an easy book that breaks everything down into A, B, C. SIMPLE!!!

Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard, wrote this great book on index funds. Along with the much longer "Common Sense on Mutual Funds" - a very dry and dense 400-odd page book on the same subject, this book gives you the insight on investing in low-cost index funds. The longer book is great and provides alot of information (and I recommend it) but this shorter book is a great introduction. Bogle is an amazing CEO and loves to pontificate about index funds. What he isn't is an amazing writer. But this book "Little Book..." must have been edited because it is well written and more readable than the longer book.

This is the best advice on early investments any person must have IMO, understanding the stock market with quotes from industry titans, analogies and how to start investing you money and even tax free through IRAs, I spent easily $250,000 (granted $50k loss through COVID was one) but as I worked my was through trades, Robinhood, TD Ameritrade, and Charles Schwab, the goal of WS "It's all a fugazi. You know what a fugazi is? It's a fake. It's a whazy. It's a woozy. It's fairy dust. It doesn't exist. It's never landed. It is no matter. It's not on the elemental chart. It's not F*^%ing real." This quote is from the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013), where Leonardo DiCaprio plays the role of Jordan Belfort. The specific scene is a conversation between Jordan Belfort and Mark Hanna (played by Matthew McConaughey) during a lunch meeting. where the only goal is to bring home cold hard cash through commission! It erodes the wealth of individuals.

John Bogle tells it like it is, and provides a practical approach to actually making money on the stock market, something that is intensely difficult to do. A hard book to read for those with rose colored glasses and ideas of turning rags to riches on a brokerage, but a necessary set of lessons for those looking for security and practicality. I find myself quoting "regression to the mean" nearly every time the topic of investing comes up. This book gives you a framework to contextualize the lunacy of the market and all the craziness of self-directed investing.

Siempre había querido este libro, te enseña bastante sobre la inversión al largo plazo y te explica lo mucho que vale la pena. Con este libro maximizarás la rentabilidad de tus inversiones.

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This book completely changed how I think about investing. John Bogle breaks everything down in plain English—no confusing jargon, no hype. The main message is simple: stop trying to beat the market and just own the market through low-cost index funds. It’s common sense, but the way he explains it really makes it click. I wish I had read this years ago—it would’ve saved me a lot of time and stress chasing “hot stocks.” It’s short, practical, and full of wisdom. Perfect for beginners or anyone who wants to invest smarter without overthinking it.