Speaking at the Morningstar investment conference, John Bogle [founder of Vanguard and indexing champion] says the best investing advice he ever got was when, as a young man working as a "runner" in a brokerage firm, a fellow runner--"who was probably the same age I am now"--told him the secret:

Nobody knows anything.

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