{"id":876,"date":"2013-10-17T15:39:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T20:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/?p=876"},"modified":"2013-10-17T15:48:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T20:48:23","slug":"a-memo-from-jack-bogle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/17\/a-memo-from-jack-bogle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Memo from Jack Bogle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">October 10, 2013<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To: Veterans and Principals<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From: John C. Bogle<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m back on the speaking circuit a bit (more to come on that later this month). I wasn\u2019t sure whether or not to circulate \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/CFA-Philly-9-25-13.pdf\">Financial Management: Profession or Business?<\/a><\/strong>\u201d, the keynote speech I delivered on September 25 at the 70<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of the Philadelphia CFA Society (Chartered Financial Analyst).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But when the SRO audience at the National Constitution Center gave me a huge ovation for my efforts, and <i>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/i> columnist Joe DiStefano described the speech as a \u201cstem-winder.\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2013-10-01\/business\/42539817_1_fidelity-john-bogle-financial-center\">His column <\/a>is also attached.) I decided it was better for you at least to have the opportunity to peruse it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Funny thing: audiences (especially this one) seem to like being critiqued, and inspired to lofty goals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Think about it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Best,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><em>Jack<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 10, 2013 \u00a0To: Veterans and Principals \u00a0From: John C. Bogle \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m back on the speaking circuit a bit (more to come on that later this month). I wasn\u2019t sure whether or not to circulate \u201cFinancial Management: Profession or Business?\u201d, the keynote speech I delivered on September 25 at the 70th Anniversary of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-clippings","category-recent-speeches"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}