Don't Count On It!

  • 22h 49m 45s
  • John C. Bogle, Mel Foster, Recorded Books
  • Recorded Books, Inc.
  • 2021

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, while, at the same time, leading a tireless campaign to restore common sense to the investment world. A collection of essays based on speeches delivered to professional groups and college students in recent years, Don't Count on It is organized around eight themes:

  • Illusion versus reality in investing
  • Indexing to market returns
  • Failures of capitalism
  • The flawed structure of the mutual fund industry
  • The spirit of entrepreneurship
  • What is enough in business, and in life
  • Advice to America's future leaders
  • The unforgettable characters who have shaped his career

Widely acclaimed for his role as the conscience of the mutual fund industry and a relentless advocate for individual investors, in Don't Count on It, Bogle continues to inspire, while pushing the mutual fund industry to measure up to their promise

In this Audiobook

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 - Don’t Count on It! The Perils of Numeracy
  • Chapter 2 - The Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic
  • Chapter 3 - The Telltale Chart
  • Chapter 4 - A Question So Important That It Should Be Hard to Think about Anything Else
  • Chapter 5 - The Uncanny Ability to Recognize the Obvious
  • Chapter 6 - What Went Wrong in Corporate America?
  • Chapter 7 - Fixing a Broken Financial System
  • Chapter 8 - Vanishing Treasures: Business Values and Investment Values
  • Chapter 9 - A Crisis of Ethic Proportions
  • Chapter 10 - Black Monday and Black Swans
  • Chapter 11 - The Go-Go Years
  • Chapter 12 - Re-Mutualizing the Mutual Fund Industry: The Alpha and the Omega
  • Chapter 13 - A New Order of Things: Bringing Mutuality to the “Mutual” Fund
  • Chapter 14 - The Fiduciary Principle: No Man Can Serve Two Masters
  • Chapter 15 - Mutual Funds at the Millennium: Fund Directors and Fund Myths
  • Chapter 16 - “High Standards of Commercial Honor . . . Just and Equitable Principles of Trade . . . Fair Dealing with Investors”
  • Chapter 17 - Success in Investment Management: What Can We Learn from Indexing?
  • Chapter 18 - As the Index Fund Moves from Heresy to Dogma, What More Do We Need to Know?
  • Chapter 19 - “The Chief Cornerstone”
  • Chapter 20 - Convergence! The Great Paradox: Just as Active Fund Management Becomes More and More Like Passive Indexing, So Passive Indexing Becomes More and More Like Active Fund Management
  • Chapter 21 - Capitalism, Entrepreneurship, and Investing: The 18th Century versus the 21st Century
  • Chapter 22 - Seventeen Rules of Entrepreneurship
  • Chapter 23 - “Vanguard: Saga of Heroes”
  • Chapter 24 - When Does Innovation Go Too Far?
  • Chapter 25 - 25 Business as a Calling
  • Chapter 26 - The Right Kind of Success
  • Chapter 27 - “This Above All: To Thine Own Self Be True”
  • Chapter 28 - “Enough”
  • Chapter 29 - If You Can Trust Yourself . . .
  • Chapter 30 - The Fifth “Never”
  • Chapter 31 - “When a Man Comes to Himself ”
  • Chapter 32 - Walter L. Morgan
  • Chapter 33 - Paul A. Samuelson
  • Chapter 34 - Peter L. Bernstein
  • Chapter 35 - Bernard Lown, MD
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