57 John Bogle: Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2019-01-28
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Product
“Um, he'd spend a lot of money, but he'd make sure that all the money he was spending was increasing the quality…”
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Focus
“You don't even have to choose, and I made, uh, made it as simple as possible.”
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People
“there's an abundance of information that is helpful to people creating something, entrepreneurs or people that wanna be entrepreneurs, that are coming…”
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Persistence
“Their long years of correspondence ended only when both died on the same day.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“Like, our entire industry is a fraud." So he says, "It was high time, I added, that any conflicts between the profession…”
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