|  | Author: John C. Bogle
Publisher: Wiley
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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 8963
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0470398515
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
EAN: 9780470398517
ASIN: 0470398515
Publication Date: November 10, 2008
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 Our insatiable desire for more November 6, 2008
Allan S. Roth (Colorado Springs, CO United States)
56 out of 73 found this review helpful
The seemingly insatiable Wall Street desire for more, combined with look-the-other-way regulators, has landed the U.S. in financial crisis. In Jack Bogle's latest book, Enough, you can read it thinking about the current pickle we find ourselves in and you will understand why it happened. He does a great job of explaining why there has never been a better time to learn individually, and as a country, when enough is enough.
This book delves into the perfect storm of investing created by costs, speculation, and complexity. It examines the folly of a business paradigm that focuses on the short-term bottom line; where business conduct and management becomes all about the sale, no matter what the cost.
In life we often seem to define our success by the material possessions we have amassed. The "he who dies with the most stuff, wins" philosophy dictates that somehow this will make us a happier person. Jack Bogle puts such a philosophy in perspective by reminding us that being the richest person in the graveyard shouldn't be our goal.
Enough is engaging and thought-provoking, and offers practical insights that extend beyond investing and business into life itself Jack Bogle clearly could have been a billionaire had he founded Vanguard as a for-profit entity. I suspect he must have realized far earlier than I did that there is more meaning to life than the accumulation of money.
Personally, what I can't get ENOUGH of are the insights from Jack Bogle. Simple and obvious though they may be, sometimes life gets too busy to see what is right in front of our faces. And what's right in front of our faces in Enough, is common sense.
An Astute Diagnosis of Our Embattled Financial System November 6, 2008
William Bernstein (North Bend, OR United States)
38 out of 55 found this review helpful
Jack Bogle's timing could not have been better; Enough has burst onto the scene just when it was needed most.
America's financial system is clearly broken, and if we are wise and lucky, the next administration will repair it successfully. This book is required reading for anyone involved in the process, and for anyone who cares about the nation's future.
Bogle's credentials in this regard are beyond question: having founded the nation's second-largest mutual fund company, instead of cashing in he "mutualized" it and turned it over to its mutual-fund customers. His astute observations of our financial system, acquired in his half-century at the heart of the country's markets, shine through in every page of tightly written prose.
The book's title itself is premised on the punch line from a delightful Kurt Vonnegut/Joseph Heller story. It then goes on to describe the unchecked excesses in investment company fees, in speculation masquerading as diversification and innovation, in the salaries of top executives, in salesmanship, and most importantly, in the role played by the financial industry in our national economy and national life. Each of these excesses gets its own chapter, and each one is a gem.
This book, with its emphasis on investing simplicity, will pay dividends to the reader's bottom line as well.
Enough already: buy this book. It will reward you philosophically, financially, and morally.
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