Chapter Three
Cast Your Lot With Business
-
Rely on Occam’s Razor
to Win by Keeping It Simple.
SO HOW DO YOU cast your lot with business? Simply by
buying a portfolio that owns the shares of every business
in the United States and then holding it forever.

Chapter Three Cast Your Lot With Business - Rely on Occam’s Razor to Win by Keeping It Simple. SO HOW DO YOU cast your lot with business? Simply by buying a portfolio that owns the shares of every business in the United States and then holding it forever.

Cast Your Lot With Business

To Paul A. Samuelson, professor of economics 
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Nobel Laureate, investment sage.
In 1948 when I was a student at Princeton 
University, his classic textbook introduced me 
to economics. In 1974, his writings reignited my 
interest in market indexing as an investment strategy.
In 1976, his Newsweek column applauded my cre-
ation of the world’s first index mutual fund. In
1993, he wrote the foreword to my first book, and
in 1999 he provided a powerful endorsement for my
second. Now in his ninety-second year, he remains
my mentor, my inspiratio

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To Paul A. Samuelson, professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nobel Laureate, investment sage. In 1948 when I was a student at Princeton University, his classic textbook introduced me to economics. In 1974, his writings reignited my interest in market indexing as an investment strategy. In 1976, his Newsweek column applauded my cre- ation of the world’s first index mutual fund. In 1993, he wrote the foreword to my first book, and in 1999 he provided a powerful endorsement for my second. Now in his ninety-second year, he remains my mentor, my inspiratio

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