Richer, Wiser, Happier

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

By: William Green

Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill

“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.

stop, buy, read once every 5 years

Nothing more to say about the book. Just ready it and you'll thank yourself later in life.

great

i feel richer already
good perspectives on many different styles and mind sets. well written!

What a great book, Loved it

The book was informing, funny, very entertaining. I've heard many books on audible. This was the 1st one I took the time to write a review. Highly recommend

Great Book about Investing, Business and Life!

I love this book. I mean, absolutely love it. It is one of the best books I've ever listened to on Audible. I don't normally leave reviews, in fact this might even be the first one in years, but I had to take a moment to review and recommend this one.

William Green has written a fascinating anthology (if one can call it that), of the greatest investors of our time. He gives accounts of his meetings over the last several decades with people you've heard of (Munger, Templeton) and many that I was not familiar with (Garrett, Vandenburg and many others). These experiences are all fascinating especially Templeton being tracked down in the Bahamas and Green asking him if it bothered him that some people thought he was a kook! The anecdotes he shares are in many cases hysterically funny and in others, very touching and poignant.

I am a part time, small investor and I learned so much from this book, not only about investing, but also about business success in general and even about how to live a good life. Spoiler alert: Marcus Aurelius has something to say about it.

I always take notes from books I read or listen to (at least the non-fiction ones), and usually come up with a page or two. With Richer, Wiser Happier I ended up with SEVEN pages of typed notes! I will read and re-read these notes over and over again.

I also want to say something about the narrator--Raphael Corkhill has an extremely pleasant speaking voice, just the right amount of accent, and made the book a joy to listen to.

Please buy this book! You will be very, very happy that you did.

Outstanding

Amazing book - highly recommended to anyone interested in investing and positive psychology.

Tremendous lessons learned.