This volume includes two dozen of John Bogle's speeches given to the crew of Vanguard. It tells how Bogle built Vanguard and distils the principles upon which the company stands.
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This volume includes two dozen of John Bogle's speeches given to the crew of Vanguard. It tells how Bogle built Vanguard and distils the principles upon which the company stands.
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Add this copy of Character Counts: the Creation and Building of the to cart. $600.00, like new condition, Sold by Raptis Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Palm Beach, FL, UNITED STATES, published by McGraw-Hill.
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First edition of the story of how Vanguard was born, why it has flourished, and what leadership principles and management practices fostered its development. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Jay Goulart, With best wishes to one of Sandys heroes! John C. Bogle April 6, 2002." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Stvan. Vanguard has introduced generations of independent investors to the wealth-building might of the U.S. stock market. But it owes its existence to the visionary genius and dogged tenacity of one man John C. Bogle, one of the last of a breed of principled and unbending financial legends. Over the years, Bogle's prescient and fiery speeches to the burgeoning Vanguard staff have also become legend. Character Counts collects those speeches in one volume. More than just an insider's portrait of the reasons behind Vanguard's remarkable success, however, it is a fascinating oral history of the too-long-in-coming empowerment of America's independent investor and the take-no-prisoners attitude of the man who dedicated his life to making it happen.
