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01-16-2019, 03:23 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: in the sticks
Posts: 473
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RIP John Bogle
...has died. RIP
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01-16-2019, 03:29 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2004
Location: SW Ohio
Posts: 14,404
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John had a great run. I don't think anyone has done more for the individual investor in my lifetime. He changed an industry and gave people an opportunity to build wealth in a way that had not been possible before. We'll miss him, and wait for another to take the torch and move ahead. Yes, RIP John. And thank you.
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01-16-2019, 03:32 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
Posts: 9,067
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Eighty nine years old with a heart transplant 22 years ago. Pretty impressive. Led a long fruitful life. R.I.P.
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Retired 3/31/2007@52
Investing style: Full time wuss.
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01-16-2019, 03:33 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 11,078
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Sad, truly a great man. John changed the mutual fund industry. He faced a lot of criticism from his peers at other fund companies. Fund industry is more than a little inbred, had to be a tough uphill grind for many years. RIP.
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01-16-2019, 03:39 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 3,594
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Oh man, that is bad bad news.
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01-16-2019, 03:44 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: On a hill in the Pine Barrens
Posts: 9,687
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He was a good man.
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01-16-2019, 03:44 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 2,581
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A truly great man who tangibly improved the financial well being of millions. A sad day indeed.
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01-16-2019, 03:47 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Toronto
Posts: 3,320
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Truly a visionary. Thank you Mr Bogle. RIP.
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01-16-2019, 03:47 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Tampa
Posts: 11,233
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A good man inside and outside the financial road. Creatively went where no one went before him.
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TGIM
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01-16-2019, 03:53 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Laurel, MD
Posts: 8,309
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RIP Jack Bogle
Haven’t read the details. He’s def St Jack now, IMO.
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...with no reasonable expectation for ER, I'm just here auditing the AP class.Retired 8/1/15.
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01-16-2019, 03:54 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 7,925
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"One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute." William Feather
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ER'd Oct. 2010 at 53. Life is good.
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01-16-2019, 03:56 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Atlanta Suburb
Posts: 1,499
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Buffett's 2017 comments about Bogle quoted in a CNBC article today.
"If a statue is ever erected to honor the person who has done the most for American investors, the hands down choice should be Jack Bogle," billionaire investor Warren Buffett wrote in his annual letter in March 2017.
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"Oh, twice as much ain't twice as good
And can't sustain like one half could
It's wanting more that's gonna send me to my knees" - John Mayer
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01-16-2019, 03:58 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 609
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RIP John Bogle
I just received the sad headline on my phone that John Bogle, father of index investing and founder of Vanguard, has passed away. He was a great man and will be missed by his family, friends and the millions of investors who are grateful to him for making the simple observation that most active managers cannot beat the market, so it's usually best to use a low cost index fund for investing. RIP Mr. Bogle.
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Saved 8 figures by my mid-40's as a professional bubble-spotter. Beware...the Fed creates bubble after bubble after bubble.
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01-16-2019, 03:59 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 151
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Always admired him. He got me started investing in the S&P fund. RIP
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01-16-2019, 04:06 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,474
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Oh no! What sad news. He will be sorely missed. So many of us here followed his financial lead for many years and still adhere to the investing outlook advocated by him.
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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01-16-2019, 04:18 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Gainesville
Posts: 160
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An amazing person who's life work made things better for the little guy instead of just making great globs of money for himself. He leveled the playing field and made it possible for the unwashed masses, such as myself, to win in the investment game by following his sage advise. RIP Mr. Bogle.
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01-16-2019, 04:21 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Madison
Posts: 1,337
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Sad day but then he had quite a life and career so in the end he was a great winner of life's sweepstakes.
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Wild Bill shoulda taken more out of his IRA when he could have. . . .
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01-16-2019, 04:34 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: West of the Mississippi
Posts: 17,173
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He helped a lot of people. Good job, Jack!
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Comparison is the thief of joy
The worst decisions are usually made in times of anger and impatience.
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01-16-2019, 04:37 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 9,424
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RIP Jack
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01-16-2019, 04:42 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 10,656
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I don't have many heroes, but he has been, and will continue to be one to me.
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