Enough.: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

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John Bogle puts our obsession with financial success in perspectiveThroughout his legendary career, John C. Bogle-founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group and creator of the first index mutual fund-has helped investors build wealth the right way and led a tireless campaign to restore common sense to the investment world. Along the way, he's seen how destructive an obsessi...more

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Published October 1st 2008 by John Wiley & Sons (first published 2008)

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May 18, 2013 JP rated it 3 of 5 stars

What is most inspiring about this book is John Bogle's personal example. He has lived the life he espouses, and continues to do so. Through a variety of personal anecdotes and observations about modern times, he explains why we need to return to the basic values of character and thrift. He applies this message to investing, but the book is more social commentary than financial advice. What he does say about investing is exemplified in the approach Vanguard uses. Having studied the economics of p...more

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Apr 06, 2012 Trevor rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: biography, economics

Has there ever been a book with a more apt title? Honestly, I couldn't count the number of times during listening to this audiobook when I thought to myself, ENOUGH, PLEASE GOD ENOUGH!

In the end I listened to the whole damn thing, but mostly out of the perverse curiosity that wonders if it is possible for this guy to bring in homily after homily and self-aggrandisement after self-aggrandisement and sustain it for an entire book. Naturally, he had no trouble. Where this book is particularly inter...more

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Dec 31, 2011 Sam Dye rated it 5 of 5 stars

More than a remarkable book. How to invest, run a company and run your life. The Forward by William Jefferson Clinton and Prologue by Tom Peters are excellent. Then Bogle presents an "Author's Note" written in April 2010 where he deals with the causes of the 2007 collapse what to do about it and sets the stage defining the ethical crisis. In the Introduction he summarizes his life which he returns to in the Afterword. Then the Money section titles Too Much Cost, Not Enough Value; Too Much Specul...more

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Mar 08, 2010 Jeffrey Dunster rated it 4 of 5 stars

Enough starts with the very premise I came upon several years ago while studying business; there is a point where individuals (and companies) have enough, enough market share, enough savings, enough resources, enough house, enough comfort, etc.

p. 22 "...our entire society...reflect[s:] some of the absurdities and inequities that we've come to accept and take for granted."
"In our financial system, we focus our expectations on the returns that the financial markets may deliver, ignoring the exorbi...more

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Jan 19, 2009 Carmen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Bogle, with an elegant simplicity, cogently explains why the current financial crisis is far more than "a bunch of people who didn't really qualify got a bunch of bad mortgages." The prevailing news stories seem to cast the pickle we're all in on the backs of the working poor and those trying to move into home ownership for the first time, ever.

Bogle explains how we have transitioned from an agricultural economy to an industrial to a service to finally, a finance economy. About a quarter of our...more

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May 05, 2013 Jon rated it 5 of 5 stars

I will never grow weary of reading books by John C. Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group.

While the book does veer way of course from its title and only sporadically touches on the concept of when do you have enough? it makes up of for it by Bogle's wisdom on a range of topics, from finance, business practices to entrepreneurship.

As usual he commands the classical writings of yore to support his arguments and to show that business, work, values and ethics have changed very little in the course of...more

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Feb 19, 2009 getAbstract rated it 5 of 5 stars

An inspiring reflection on money and more

This inspiring work by John C. Bogle, one of the great financial innovators in American history, sounds like an echo of the distant past. Indeed, he calls for a return to 18th century values, and uses such words as “virtue” and “character” to describe his vision of how the financial system should be constituted. Many of the themes Bogle strikes will be familiar to readers acquainted with his other works. However, with the American financial system in cris...more

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Dec 09, 2008 Karen rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: economics, current-events, philosophy, ethics

The best part about this book is the story that inspired the title. At a party, Kurt Vonnegut tells Joseph Heller that their host (a hedge fund manager) had made more money in a day than Heller made from his book, Catch-22. Heller says, "Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . enough." That interaction is a little revelation in itself. But it's also a fabulous premise for a book. Just not this book. I expected the book to be for a general audience and to go into more depth about what...more The best part about this book is the story that inspired the title. At a party, Kurt Vonnegut tells Joseph Heller that their host (a hedge fund manager) had made more money in a day than Heller made from his book, Catch-22. Heller says, "Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . enough." That interaction is a little revelation in itself. But it's also a fabulous premise for a book. Just not this book. I expected the book to be for a general audience and to go into more depth about what constitutes enough. Instead, I suppose not surprisingly, Mr. Bogle's intended audience seems to have been fellow financial marketeers.

As a consequence, much of the lingo goes right over the head of a simple investor. I actually found the book kind of terrifying. You see, I understood enough of it to realize that I've been had as an investor. And not just because the market tanked. It's the "why" it tanked that turns my hair white. Wall Street seems more foreign than ever after reading this book. That is due, in part, to Mr. Bogle's very effective description of the moral turpitude and crass greed that motivates hedge fund managers and various other financial market types. The fact that Mr. Bogle finds it necessary to remind his Wall Street cohorts that investors and people they work with are human beings just like they are leaves me speechless. Don't get me wrong, he shares good advice for the apparently otherwise immoral majority who control our investments. But the advice is quite elementary in terms of ethics and humanity.

There were some quotes that are keepers. For example, from Goethe, "Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Of course, the tip of the hat is owed to Goethe. I thank Mr. Bogle for sharing it with me though.

If you work in the financial market and feel you need to be reminded that investors are fellow human beings, then, for Pete's sake, read this book. If, however, you are an average investor and you go to church on a regular basis, you may find the lessons in this book to be a little old hat, other than the lesson that investors should expect little more from the market than a continual sucker punch. (less)

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Jan 05, 2010 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: financial-business

Very enjoyable investing book for once. What is enough? Answering that in a personal and financial sense helps us lead directed, meaningful lives. It also talks about a human obsession with quantifying... even the things that cannot be quantified. Once again, Bogle talks not about beating the market but getting your fair share through index funds. I like that idea considering where beating the market can land you and your country.

My two favorite passages:
At a party given by a billionaire on Shel...more

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Dec 19, 2011 Le Lien rated it 5 of 5 stars

It seemed slow going at the first portion of the book. However, I was pleasantly surprised how the booked tied the end to the beginning. It became apparent to me why the author laid out the book this way.

I really like the quote mentioned in the book:
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelic...more

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Jun 17, 2012 Russell rated it 2 of 5 stars

The name of John Bogle's most recent book, Enough. True Measures of Money, Business and Life, seems to promise a treatise on our society's failure to measure true value. But Bogle’s shortest book reads more like the meandering thoughts of a accomplished, earnest and wise old man than it does a clear and directed essay. In a roundabout way, Enough concludes that the values that underpin market capitalism have eroded, resulting in a grim prognosis for our financial system.

What must be foremost ap...more The name of John Bogle's most recent book, Enough. True Measures of Money, Business and Life, seems to promise a treatise on our society's failure to measure true value. But Bogle’s shortest book reads more like the meandering thoughts of a accomplished, earnest and wise old man than it does a clear and directed essay. In a roundabout way, Enough concludes that the values that underpin market capitalism have eroded, resulting in a grim prognosis for our financial system.

What must be foremost appreciated about Enough is that its author, a titan of the investment and business community, has explicitly declared the financial and investment system broken, while at the same moment upholding the merits of capitalism's potential and ideals - this alone is a remarkable testament of our current state of affairs and should be a catalyst for reform.

The book’s first section, Money, reiterates the argument of Bogle’s previous investment books, such as The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, that speculation and market timing are loser’s games, and that mutual funds are rent-seeking hobgoblins, miserably failing to add value for their customers. These are arguments that Bogle makes persuasively, and has demonstrated through 40 years of his firm’s results (though one wonders why Vanguard offers mutual funds to customers at all, if they are categorically less efficient than index funds). His second section, Business, comments on the excesses of CEO compensation, the twisted incentives that leave managers less accountable to the money they manage for their principals, and the concept that finance is ultimately wealth redistributive rather than value creating. In the last section, Life, Bogle talks explicitly about the degradation of the values of democratic capitalism, a theme that underlies the rest of his book. In each section, except the first section on the dangers of managed funds, it is not clear that Bogle has the qualifications to speak with authority - it is broad, but not deep, and often comes across sounding like a series of platitudes, without in-depth analysis or context to enrich the reader's understanding of the system's complexity.

While Enough tells us that our financial system is broken, it does not give the reader enough information to understand why, let along how we might start to fix it. It is a description of the symptoms that leaves you wanting for a diagnosis of the underlying problem, not to mention a well-argued prescription for a cure. Bogle references Ben Franklin’s public service and entrepreneurship in his discussion of 18th Century values, but in a manner that seems almost sentimental and idealized without an actual history or causal explanation of when and how those values lost their standing over time. He calls attention to the problem that executives and managers are regularly incentivized by short-term stock gains, making them less apt to create long-term value - but without an economic argument demonstrating the dynamics of the principal-agent problem or a discussion of the various other critical market failures, such as the externalities, this feels half-baked.

It is hard to not be left hungry for a proposal for how we address these challenges – from the specific (should complex derivative products be regulated or outlawed?) to the general (if American capitalism isn’t actually totaled, what parts do we need to replace?). All in all, Enough left me wanting for more.
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May 13, 2012 Angus Mcfarlane rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: business

This is an interesting combination of business advice, social commentary and business ethics. Written by a mutual fund manager of 60 years experience at the time of the recent financial crisis, Bogle is well qualified to speak on the problems in the financial system. He takes aim at the fact that many companies and individuals in the financial 'services' sector skim off profits for themselves and pay little heed to those who they earn their money from, or who they should be earning it for. On th...more

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Dec 18, 2010 David rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Even though I only gave this 3 stars I do recommend it. The author gets preachy at times, pats himself on the back a little too much, but his message is important. Just the intro story about how he came up with the title for the book is worth at least picking up the book.

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Jul 06, 2009 Bob rated it 3 of 5 stars

Would that more corporate CEOs and high level managers had the business ethic of John Bogle. While I'm sure his view is biased (as are we all) it sounds like he's built Vanguard into a company that, if it follows his beliefs as he's laid them out, truly has the customer's best interest in mind. His observations of the investing and money industry are especially apt given the meltdown we've experienced over the last year. While money managers have made huge sums of money for themselves, they've a...more

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Jan 10, 2013 Richard D'ambrosio rated it 2 of 5 stars

I was very interested in the chapter where Bogle looks at his industry and disects it at a 30,000-foot level. It was interesting to hear an insider speak about one of the most important aspects of the business world, how we save for retirement. If this guy thinks it is this broken, we are in trouble.

His section about what is "enough" left me pretty bored. Some old bromides. Some new ones. But no new ways to look at the concept of what people need to be happy. I was a little disappointed with tha...more

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Mar 13, 2009 Kip rated it 4 of 5 stars

My first time with a Bogle book, so some may have taken issue with the repetition he acknowledges from his previous work. It was great to read his thoughts and understanding his thinking. Got a bit out "preachy" in spots, with a yearning for the "good old days" but some real pearls throughout.

His skewering of the financial advisory and investment firms is priceless, classic Bogle. Made me go back and review my own investment ideas and strategies to see how far I've come off his low-cost, broad...more

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Jan 12, 2012 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book is a treasure trove of wisdom about what it means to have "enough" in life. The book resonated with my own Judeo-Christian values, and I recommend it to others looking for an extended essay on this topic. John Bogle is the founder and past CEO of Vanguard, one of my favorite investment firms. Mr. Bogle shares in this book his own life experiences and then launches into an extended critique of the business and financial world (particularly, of the investment -- or should I say speculati...more

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Dec 02, 2009 James Stout rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book's title came from a story Kurt Vonnegut told about a party he and Joseph Heller attended. The party was hosted by a billionaire CEO and, purportedly Vonnegut told Heller he bet the host made more in the last year than all the money Heller made from his masterpiece, "Catch-22." Heller replied, "Yeah, but I've made something he never will." When Vonnegut asked, "What?" Heller said, "Enough."

The book is written by the former CEO of Vanguard and an author of other books on investing. It's...more

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May 11, 2013 Kurt Anderson rated it 4 of 5 stars

Good principles. Excellent quotes an anecdotes to mine.

Minor criticisms:
1) The flow (and sometimes subject matter) is a little disjointed. The book works well as a series of references and essays, but not as a "book" per se.
2) The tone is often preachy (I'm generally OK with that, but I can see others getting sick of it quickly).
3) A little too often, the book comes across as a little too self-congratulatory. I won't pretend that Bogle hasn't earned a well-deserved reputation. But one can only...more

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Mar 12, 2009 Sergei Nemirovsky rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book can be a real eye-opener for an average person who invests in his or her 401(k) and then wonders at puny returns while the likes of Fidelity manage to make multi-billion dollar profits. The executives of most corporations together with the financial industry managed to transform capitalism from a system of value-creation for the shareholders and society into one of value-extraction from them. I was aware of these problems before I picked up this book, but still was glad to read it and...more

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Aug 29, 2012 Toby rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: finance, biography, motivational, library

I'm not sure exactly what I should call this book. Is it finance? Is it motivational? Is it biography? I can't really say. But it is an interesting read when viewed from any of those perspectives. Of course, John Bogle is a fascinating guy and has rocked the world of finance over his lifetime, so he is eminently qualified to give us some words of advice on finance. [return][return]In this book, Bogle spends about 2/3 of the time working his way through 'what is wrong in finance.' Informative and...more

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Jun 15, 2011 Howie rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book on recommendation from Matt Heusser's blog, Creative Chaos (you can read his review here). I like what Bogle has to say in the opening about having 'enough.' Too often we think about what we could do with a little more, rather than thinking about what we can do better with what we have. On that point I agree. I hoped that he would go on to describe a method of growing a business that is sustainable, where success is measured by providing a stable work place; not by how the busin...more I read this book on recommendation from Matt Heusser's blog, Creative Chaos (you can read his review here). I like what Bogle has to say in the opening about having 'enough.' Too often we think about what we could do with a little more, rather than thinking about what we can do better with what we have. On that point I agree. I hoped that he would go on to describe a method of growing a business that is sustainable, where success is measured by providing a stable work place; not by how the business booms and grows every year. What he actually describes is the evils of the financial industry and how his company, VanGuard, is doing business 'right.'

My reasons for wanting to read about business stability are based on my own belief. I believe that, for one business to do better, someone or something else must be doing worse. In the case of two competing companies, this is clearly true. However, if a company makes its living by mining coal or cutting trees, to do better is to mine more coal or cut more trees, reducing the volume of natural resources available to the nation at large. Even if the business does nothing but deal in financials, for the value of the business to go up, usually the value of something else must fall - the value of the American dollar for example (which means that those who are simply holding on to their money are losing value). In each of these cases, growth does not seem sustainable. Competing companies will go out of business leaving nowhere else to grow, a nation will eventually be deprived of its natural resources, or the value of the dollar will drop to trivial levels. Sadly, the way our economy is structured, if a business does nothing but sustain from one year to the next, it seems the company is considered to be doing poorly. If we are going to ever live in peace with each other and with our environment, we should dream of an economy of sustainability, not continual growth.

All of this is to say what I was hoping to read about. What I actually got was treatise on the dishonorable practices of the financial industry. Bogle would be in a good position to know, since he spent more than a half century in that profession. My take away from his statements is that dealing in financials should be avoided wherever possible. Like a carnivore that feeds only on other carnivores, the financial industry taxes the environment it is built on exponentially. Businesses that are traded publicly bear an incredible financial burden from the numerous hands that maintain the shares of the company. Furthermore, when a company or group of companies does well, the financier reaps the benefits. Like one who plays the lottery, the financiers play a game where some win big and others never see a payout. Unlike those who play the lottery, those who win big not only see huge personal financial gain, but are then lauded for their ingenuity (though the result might as well have been random). Moreover, if a company or group of companies does poorly, the financier continues to receive their stipend. Where else must this imbalance come from but the company that the financier trades and the investor that puts their trust in the financier?

This book is worthwhile if, for no other reason, than to learn the fullness of the imbalance the financial industry perpetuates. Bogle also puts forth remedies for this imbalance - financiers that are stewards instead of salesmen that look for long term gains instead of short term booms; professionals that work with a client instead of pushing the client around. These are certainly principals that apply to industries other than financial and principals that Bogle credits with the success of his company, VanGuard.

In the end, the book tends to be the ramblings of a professional late in his life (a view Bogle admits in the book). Bogle states that, in his life, he has achieved 'enough' and is happy by his level of success. I think by any standard Bogle was quite successful, so it might be hard for the average man to read this and feel that he too has enough. Somewhere between happiness through the ultimate divergence from materialism and Bogle's level of success lies a level of 'enough' for the common man also. I'd like to read that book.(less)

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Jun 18, 2012 Gloria rated it 3 of 5 stars

Can't remember how this book got onto my to-read list…

Overall a decent enough book; insightful in terms of clarifying many things such as "business versus finance" [which could be viewed as making versus counting, in some ways), and his approach toward investment and reasonings behind the development of the Vanguard Index fund.

The later two-thirds are more general about business and life, and at times could rub a reader the wrong way (perhaps preachy, perhaps at some point a reader might think "...more Can't remember how this book got onto my to-read list…

Overall a decent enough book; insightful in terms of clarifying many things such as "business versus finance" [which could be viewed as making versus counting, in some ways), and his approach toward investment and reasonings behind the development of the Vanguard Index fund.

The later two-thirds are more general about business and life, and at times could rub a reader the wrong way (perhaps preachy, perhaps at some point a reader might think "easy enough for YOU to say given your success"… but still valid albeit hard to hear perhaps. I responded best to the sections where he argues for a balance --- away from the dominance of quantification as the measure of all things.

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." —Albert Einstein [98]

"We are: living at an age when life is completely overwhelmed by numbers and calculations, and we are all increasingly controlled by 'targets.'…The frightening thing is that , just because computers can count and measure nearly everything, then we do. There was a time when we could trust our own judgement, common sense, and intuition to know if we were ill or not. Now we're in danger of being unable to do anything without it being measured first. Numbers and measurements are as vulnerable as the Emperor's New CLothes to the incisve, initiative human question. The closer any of us get measuring what' really important, the more it escapes us, yet we can recognize it, sometimes in an instant. Relying on that instant a bit more, and our ability to grasp it, is probably the best hope for us all." — David Boyle, The Sum of Our Discontent

Also his dichotomies:
-Too Much Business Conduct, Not Enough Professional Conduct (Daedulus' definition of professional; or Rakesh Khurana HSB prof's def: "I will create value for society rather than extract it.";
-Too Much Salesmanship Not Enough Stewardship
-Too much Management, Not Enough Leadership…
-Too much success, not enough Character…

I also thought this distinction something to think about: Ownership Capitalism versus manager's Capitalism---due to the increase of indirect ownership by institutional investment managers' holding of stock.

And entrepreneurs v. capitalist---money as a means to an end, not the end itself…
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Dec 26, 2010 Ilya rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

81-year-old John Bogle is the founder of The Vanguard Group of mutual funds. He thinks that after all these years and a heart transplant (I wonder whether he waited in line behind ordinary citizens) he has acquired enough wisdom to share with the rest of us. Bogle thinks that American capitalism is on the wrong track because of the obsession with short-term profits and neglect of long-term investment, and that the financial industry mostly serves itself instead of the investor and the business b...more

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May 07, 2009 Scott rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2000s, money

I like Jack Bogle ... and so does Jack Bogle. He's read widely and culled a lot of good ideas -- no-load index funds, fiscal responsibility, frugality, liberality -- and he's made them his own. After reading Enough. you may be left with the impression that Bogle invented not only the mutual fund business, but also the alphabet, the Enlightenment, and chicken soup. In other words, Bogle takes a lot of credit for others' ideas: he's sort of the Al Gore of the financial world.

Still, I like the guy...more

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Nov 14, 2012 John rated it 3 of 5 stars

I picked up this text with some knowledge of the author’s role in pioneering the no-load, indexed mutual fund. In this age of financial scandal, it was refreshing to read about the sound principles for life and work that undergird his investment philosophy. Bogle shares nuggets of hard-earned wisdom, reminding us that in many places there is too much short-term speculation and not enough long-term investment, too much focus on the trappings of success and not enough on character. He says that we...more

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Sep 08, 2010 Chris rated it 2 of 5 stars

Sometimes we read things to affirm our opinions and sometimes to be challenged. This falls into the former camp for me. I agree with his opinions about an erosion in ethics in American business--although it's almost a rule of psychology that we think things were better in the old days--and the bloat in the financial industry but the book is self-indulgent given it's slim size and wide line spacing. You get the sense he gets to publish simply because of his position in society.

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Aug 16, 2012 Dogdaysinaz rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: heard, own

I thought it was pretty good. I am a Bogle fan, so I may be biased. The main complaint I have is that he really focused on what the financial advisors do "wrong" and how advisors don't define "enough" but he really didn't place any of the blame on investors, at least not in this book. If investors understood "enough," they wouldn't have been so greedy in every bubble in history. Anyway, I thought the audiobook was good enough that I got my own hard copy of the book.

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Feb 05, 2011 Marc rated it 4 of 5 stars

A good companion piece to "The Black Swan." Good financial analysis, plus some musings on the importance of ethics in a free-market, capitalistic system. Book starts with a great story: Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller are at a party in the Hamptons thrown by a financier.Vonnegut says: "this guy made more money in one day trading derivatives than you made from Catch 22 in 20 years."
Heller responds: "Yes, but I have something he'll never have."
"What's that?" asked Heller.
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Mar 03, 2009 Anthony rated it 5 of 5 stars

Great read. Jack Bogle never fails to communicate a broader vision of life while talking finance. This is no exception. The idea of an entire industry/profession as contributing no additive value and being basically parasitic is timely considering current circumstances. Enough is a call to simplicity and modesty on the one hand and an invitation to live a life of service to a grand vision on the other. Highly recommended.

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“As I have earlier noted, the most important things in life and in business can’t be measured. The trite bromide 'If you can measure it, you can manage it' has been a hindrance in the building a great real-world organization, just as it has been a hindrance in evaluating the real-world economy. It is character, not numbers, that make the world go ‘round. How can we possibly measure the qualities of human existence that give our lives and careers meaning? How about grace, kindness, and integrity? What value do we put on passion, devotion, and trust? How much do cheerfulness, the lilt of a human voice, and a touch of pride add to our lives? Tell me, please, if you can, how to value friendship, cooperation, dedication, and spirit. Categorically, the firm that ignores the intangible qualities that the human beings who are our colleagues bring to their careers will never build a great workforce or a great organization.” — 2 people liked it

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