Enough, John C. Bogle
Enough, John C. Bogle
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Enough
True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

Author: John C. Bogle

Narrator: Alan Sklar

Unabridged: 6 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/03/2008


Synopsis

For a critical element of American society, including many of its wealthiest and most powerful, there seems to be no limit today on what "enough" entails.

The excesses are most starkly visible in the continuing crisis in banking and investment, and even in the two enormous government-sponsored (but publicly owned) mortgage lenders, to say nothing of the billion-dollar-plus annual paychecks that top hedge-fund managers draw down and the excessive compensation paid to CEOs, regardless of  performance.

Throughout his legendary career, John 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 obsession with financial success can be. Now, with Enough, he puts this dilemma in perspective.

Bogle offers his unparalleled insights on money, on the values we should emulate in our business and professional callings, and on what we should consider as the true treasures in our lives. By explaining what "enough" truly is, he demonstrates how close everyone can be to having it.

About John C. Bogle

John C. Bogle is founder of The Vanguard Group, Inc. and president of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He created Vanguard, one of the two largest mutual-fund organizations in the world, in 1974 and served as Chairman and CEO until 1996 and Senior Chairman until 2000. Designated by Fortune magazine as one of the investment industry’s four “Giants of the 20th Century,” in 2004 he was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University, his alma mater, for distinguished achievement in the nation’s service. That same year Time magazine named Mr. Bogle one of the world’s 100 most powerful and influential people.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean on February 22, 2017

Short, mildly dense, preachy. But I agree with the messages, so it was kinda preaching to the choir. __ The perfect growing up environment: a family with community standing and never a concern about being inferior or disrespected, yet with the need to take responsibility for our own spending money, th......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on October 21, 2018

The title and general message of this book, by the wise and sometimes insistent John Bogle, is taken from a poem that was written by the late Kurt Vonnegut about an experience he and Joseph Heller had when visiting the home of a billionaire, to which Heller commented as a retort to Vonnegut's statem......more

Goodreads review by Siah on September 09, 2020

Good “enough”. A few amazing quotes but not much beyond that......more

Goodreads review by Russell on June 17, 2012

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......more

Goodreads review by Virginia on July 03, 2017

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 u......more