The book shines when it comes to explaining investment concepts congruent with the financial independence principles. Plus, I agree with the message of the book. Index investing is key. And this is well supported over the entire book. Since we cannot beat the market, we should prefer funds with low-cost. Using low-cost funds also makes a lot of sense.

Where does The Little Book of Common Sense Investing rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?After hearing so many references to John Bogle and his followers, the Bogleheads, I decided I had to read this book. The author, John Bogle, invented the index fund and founded Vanguard.

Bogle shows you how to make index investing work for you and help you achieve your financial goals and finds support from some of the world's best financial minds: not only Warren Buffett but Benjamin Graham, Paul Samuelson, Burton Malkiel, Yale's David Swensen, Cliff Asness of AQR, and many others.The idea of The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is simple: You should only invest in low-cost, no-load, mutual funds that replicate the entire market (index funds) and you should buy-and-hold these funds for as long as you do not need the underlying money (no market timing).

While the idea doesn't exactly feature all throughout this piece of good advice, it does underscore the obvious idiocies and point to a classy, simple solution. Kinda like the causes for the Revolution.The Little Book of Common Sense Investing was first published in 2007 and has since become a classic in the world of investing. The book promotes a simple and straightforward approach to investing that is based on common sense principles. This was written by the person who founded Vanguard group. The entire point of the book is to get people to buy his index funds. Its like reading a timeshare presentation.