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“The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.”

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John C. Bogle, born on May 8, 1929, is a distinguished investor. He is known as a pioneer in index investing and founded Vanguard Group, which has been instrumental in the development of low-cost index mutual funds. more

“By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across - each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip - is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.”

Persons Book Sometimes Stories Novel News Hot Coffee Tiny Tales Sugar Salt Episodes Storyteller Incidents Crushed Beans Clip Thrice

Author:Rabih Alameddine

“Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.”

People Years Firsts Long Made Two Bigs School Lost Boys Tree Middle Long Time Pigeons Free Time Two Trees

Author:Rabih Alameddine

“Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is it less rousing if they don’t rattle your windows and nerves with indiscriminate sonic booms just because they can?”

Ifs Needs Feels Window Neighbor Rational Bombs Stations Nerves Thrilling

Author:Rabih Alameddine

“By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.”

Writing Littles Country Home Chance Space Cases Environment Perspective Essentials Gains Originals Distance Leaving Time And Space Prescriptions About Family

Book:I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

“Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.”

Shadow Gathering Clusters Old Wisdom

Author:George Mackay Brown

“I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.”

Pockets Thug

Book:Mercy Among the Children: A Novel

Source: Mercy Among the Children: A Novel

“There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.”

Men Character Flaws

Book:Mercy Among the Children: A Novel

Source: Mercy Among the Children: A Novel

Quote by John C. Bogle

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