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Introduction
True story, Word of Honor, Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer, now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel Catch-22 has earned in its entire history. And Joe said, I've got something he can never have. And I said, "What on earth could that be, Joe? And Joe said the knowledge that I've got enough. Not bad. Rest in peace.
So that was a poem published in 2005 in New Yorker by the writer Kurt Vonnegut, that John Bogle read and 2 years later used for the basis of his commencement address that he gave to Georgetown. And then 2 years after that, used as the basis for the book that I am holding in my hand and the one that I want to talk to you about today, which is, Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life by John Bogle, the founder of Vanguard.