Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

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

What is enough? It is a question that is easy to ask and surprisingly hard to answer, especially in a world that measures success in money, possessions and status.

John C. Bogle, the founder of Vanguard and the father of the index fund, spent more than half a century in the investment industry. In Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, he draws on that experience to reflect on what truly matters. He examines how the financial industry has too often put its own interests ahead of the investors it serves, with excessive costs, short-term speculation and needless complexity, and argues for a return to simple, low-cost, long-term investing.

Bogle widens his lens to consider the values of business more broadly: the difference between a profession and a business, the importance of stewardship over salesmanship, the dangers of excessive executive pay, and the risk of counting what can be counted while ignoring what really counts.

He closes with personal reflections on character, integrity, family, the mentors who shaped him and the things that money cannot buy, drawing on a life that included decades of serious heart illness and a remarkable second chance.

Wise, principled and engaging, Enough is a short but powerful book for investors, business leaders, students and anyone seeking a more balanced and meaningful definition of success. It is a fitting summary of the philosophy of one of the most respected figures in modern finance.