Richer, Wiser, Happier, William Green
Richer, Wiser, Happier, William Green
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Richer, Wiser, Happier
How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life

Author: William Green

Narrator: Raphael Corkhill

Unabridged: 11 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/20/2021


Synopsis

“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.

About William Green

William Green has written for many publications in the US and Europe, including TimeFortuneForbesFast CompanyThe New YorkerThe Spectator (London), and The Economist. He edited the Asian edition of Time while living in Hong Kong, then moved to London to edit the European, Middle Eastern, and African editions of Time. As an editor and coauthor, he has collaborated on several books, including Guy Spier’s much-praised memoir, The Education of a Value Investor. Born and raised in London, Green studied English literature at Oxford University and received a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University. He lives in New York with his wife and their two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Liong

I like what Van Den Berg mentioned that Prosperity takes all of these into consideration: HEALTH WEALTH HAPPINESS PEACE OF MIND That’s what a prosperity person is, not just a lot of money.......more

This book was less useful than I had hoped in describing investment techniques, but also more useful in an unexpected way. There's a lot of helpful psychological discussion here about the mindset required to be a good investor and a happier person. Author Green's writing style is a bit melodramatic......more

This book struggles to say something new, especially at the beginning. The first few chapters (or at least the chapters focused on the biggest investors) are summaries of other, more famous biographies. But the chapters about the lesser known success stories like Nick Sleep and Thomas Gayner are incr......more

Goodreads review by Audrey

Alas, now I don't feel so alone for driving a 20 year-old car and resisting upgrading to a luxury vehicle. I don't feel as silly for being attached to the home I grew up in. This was such a captivating read, I really couldn't put it down. I thought it would be full of cliche concepts that I already......more

Goodreads review by Brad

I loved this one, neck and neck with the The Psychology of Money for the best book on investing that I have read this year. The author distills the wisdom from dozens of great investors and presents their principles in an easy to read way. Personally, I love reading about how much these mega-investo......more