Bogle Enough

True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-44195-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

John Bogle puts our obsession with financial success inperspective
Throughout his legendary career, John C. Bogle-founder of theVanguard Mutual Fund Group and creator of the first index mutualfund-has helped investors build wealth the right way and led atireless campaign to restore common sense to the investment world.Along the way, he's seen how destructive an obsession withfinancial success can be. Now, with Enough., he puts thisdilemma in perspective.
Inspired in large measure by the hundreds of lectures Bogle hasdelivered to professional groups and college students in recentyears, Enough. seeks, paraphrasing Kurt Vonnegut, "to poisonour minds with a little humanity." Page by page, Bogle thoughtfullyconsiders what "enough" actually means as it relates to money,business, and life.
* Reveals Bogle's unparalleled insights on money and what weshould consider as the true treasures in our lives
* Details the values we should emulate in our business andprofessional callings
* Contains thought-provoking life lessons regarding ourindividual roles in society
Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this uniquebook examines what it truly means to have "enough" in worldincreasingly focused on status and score-keeping.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bogle, John C.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Clinton, William Jefferson

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
MONEY.
Chapter 1: Too Much Cost, Not Enough Value.
Chapter 2: Too Much Speculation, Not Enough Investment.
Chapter 3: Too Much Complexity, Not Enough Simplicity.
BUSINESS.
Chapter 4: Too Much Counting, Not Enough Trust.
Chapter 5: Too Much Business Conduct, Not Enough ProfessionalConduct.
Chapter 6: Too Much Salesmanship, Not Enough Stewardship.
Chapter 7: Too Much Management, Not Enough Leadership.
LIFE.
Chapter 8: Too Much Focus on Things, Not Enough Focus onCommitment.
Chapter 9: Too Many Twenty-First-Century Values, Not EnoughEighteenth-Century Values.
Chapter 10: Too Much "Success," Not EnoughCharacter.
WRAPPING UP: WHAT'S ENOUGH?
What's Enough for Me? For You? For America?
Afterword: A Personal Note About My Career.
Acknowledgments.
Notes.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

John C. Bogle is founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group and President of its Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He created Vanguard in 1974 and served as chairman and chief executive officer until 1996 and senior chairman until 2000. In 1999, Fortune magazine named Mr. Bogle as one of the four "Investment Giants" of the twentieth century; in 2004, Time named him one of the world's 100 most powerful and influential people; and Institutional Investor presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Enough., Bogle's seventh book, follows his 2007 bestseller The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (Wiley).