What but fate can account for the fact that in December 1949, searching for my topic, I opened Fortune magazine to page 116 and read an article (“Big Money in Boston”) about a financial instrument that I had never heard of before: the mutual fund. Not John Maynard Keynes, not Adam Smith, not Karl Marx, but a subject fresh and new. “ The great game of life is not about money it is about doing your best to join the battle to build anew ourselves, our communities, our nation, and our world.”Īt Princeton, this callow, idealistic young kid with a crew cut had determined to write his economics department senior thesis on a subject on which no earlier thesis had been written. Heller responds,“Yes, but I have something he will never have. The book begins with a great story that summarizes the theme of the book:Īt a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. The book is divided into three sections: Money, Business, and Life. Bogle, the late founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group and creator of the first index mutual fund, in Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, examines what it truly means to have “enough” in a world increasingly focused on status and score-keeping. Happiness is the key to success.” – Albert Schweitzer
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