Richer, Wiser, Happier

How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life

William Green

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781501164859
• eBook ISBN:
  9781501164873
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Investments & Securities
• Index: Business

“One of the best investing books ever written.” —Charlie Munger

From an award-winning financial journalist, a fresh and insightful book that draws on interviews with more than forty of the world’s super-investors to demonstrate that the keys to building wealth also apply to everyday life.

Billionaire investors. If we think of them, it’s with a mixture of awe and suspicion. Clearly, they possess a kind of genius—the proverbial Midas Touch. But are the skills they possess transferable? And do they have anything to teach us besides making money.

In Richer, Wiser, Happier, William Green draws on interviews that he’s conducted over twenty-five years with many of the world’s greatest investors. As he discovered, their talents extend well beyond the financial realm. The most successful investors are mavericks and iconoclasts who question conventional wisdom and profit vastly from their ability to think more rationally, rigorously, and objectively. They are master game players who consciously maximize their odds of long-term success in markets and life, while also minimizing any risk of catastrophe. They draw powerful insights from many different fields, are remarkably intuitive about trends, practice fanatical discipline, and have developed a high tolerance for pain. As Green explains, the best investors can teach us not only how to become rich, but how to improve the way we think, reach decisions, assess risk, avoid costly errors, build resilience, and turn uncertainty to our advantage.

Green ushers us into the lives of more than forty super-investors, visiting them in their offices, homes, and even their places of worship—all to share what they have to teach us. From Sir John Templeton to Charlie Munger, Jack Bogle to Ed Thorp, Will Danoff to Mohnish Pabrai, Joel Greenblatt to Howard Marks, Green explains how they think and why they win.

Profound, practical, and “unexpectedly illuminating” (Peter Diamandis), Richer, Wiser, Happier provides “many nuggets of wisdom” (The Washington Post) that will enrich you both financially and personally.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Introduction: Inside the Minds of the Greatest Investors
• Chapter One: The Man Who Cloned Warren Buffett
• Chapter Two: The Willingness to Be Lonely
• Chapter Three: Everything Changes
• Chapter Four: The Resilient Investor
• Chapter Five: Simplicity Is the Ultimate Sophistication
• Chapter Six: Nick & Zak’s Excellent Adventure
• Chapter Seven: High-Performance Habits
• Chapter Eight: Don’t Be a Fool
• Epilogue: Beyond Rich
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Notes on Sources and Additional Resources
• Index
• Copyright