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'A brilliant book packed with powerful insights from the world's most successful investors'
Tony Robbins

'A profound, eloquent, and much-needed call for a reassessment of how we build our portfolios and live our lives'
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'A classic ... for generations, will define what it means to be a better investor and a better human'
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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 would we really want to be them? Do they have anything to teach us besides making money?

In Richer, Wiser, Happier, award-winning journalist William Green has spent nearly twenty-five years interviewing these investing wizards and discovered that their talents expand well beyond the financial realm and into practical philosophy.

Green ushers us into the lives of more than forty of the world's super-investors, visiting them in their offices, vacation homes, and even their places of worship - all to share what they have to teach us. Green brings together the thinking of some of the best investors, from Warren Buffett to Howard Marks to John Templeton, and provides gems of insight that will enrich you not only financially but also professionally and personally.

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Profile Books
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April 29, 2021
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5.31 x 0.87 x 8.5 inches
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1781258600
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978-1781258606
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Profile Books; Main edition (April 29, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1781258600
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1781258606
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.87 x 8.5 inches

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William Green is the author of RICHER, WISER, HAPPIER: How the World’s Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, April 2021).

Green has interviewed many of the world’s most successful investors, exploring in depth the question of what principles, processes, insights, habits, and traits enable them to achieve spectacular success—and how we can profit by reverse engineering and replicating their winning ways.

Green has written for many publications, including The New Yorker, Time, Fortune, Forbes, Barron’s, Fast Company, Bloomberg Markets, and The Economist. He also edited the European, Middle Eastern, African, and Asian editions of Time.

Green has collaborated on several books as a ghostwriter, co-author, or editor. He worked closely with renowned hedge fund manager Guy Spier on his much-praised memoir, The Education of a Value Investor. Green also wrote and edited The Great Minds of Investing, which features short profiles of 33 renowned investors.

Born and raised in London, Green studied English literature at Oxford University, and received a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in New York with his wife and children.

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Sofía Iporre

Great book!

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2024

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I just loved the lessons and life examples. Great book, it provides a lot of windsom. It is not the typical financial book

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Amy

Informative and entertaining

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2023

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It’s a great idea for a book and very well done. I think it highlights an important aspect of the style and thinking involved in making decisions in areas where the consensus is not necessarily correct. One of the best books I’ve read recently. I really enjoyed it and would love a second and third volume. The author asks really good questions in writing the book and in podcast episodes I’ve heard and the writing is excellent.

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An important investing book that is about more than just investing...

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2021

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This book finally tells the stories that needed to be told about exceptional investors like Pabrai, Miller, Gayner, Greenblatt, Sleep and and others (some of whom were new to me -- arnold van den berg?). The magic is that the author tells their stories in a succinct and well written way that's super engaging and that ties common themes across these investors. The writing is terrific, casual and compact with the book packing in so much wisdom in under 250 pages - that's impressive.

My sense is the book will age very well and will earn its place at the center of every investor's library. In essence, This books is an investors' version of William Thorndike's The Outsiders (another exceptional, seminal book). William Green does a superb job of distilling the personality, intellectual and emotional traits that explain the enduring success of great investors.

One of my favorite parts of this book is the "Notes on Sources and Additional Resources" at the back. For most books this is an afterthought, but Green obviously put a lot of effort here: he provides the reader with perhaps one of the best curated recommended reading lists i have ever encountered.

Buy the book, and read it.

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Informative and interesting

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2024

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the only reason I am at 4 stars and not 5 (I believe) is that I am on page 181 out of 252 pages. So far it is excellent. Mr. Green's interpretations and summaries after the interviews are insightful. Will likely be a 5 star investment book.

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Richard Lam

Best investment book I’ve ever read!

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2023

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I wished this book was available 30 years ago when I first started investing in my 20’s. There is so much practical advice and investment wisdom offered in this book. It will benefit anyone whether your a novice or experienced investor. I’m certainly RICHER, WISER, and HAPPIER after reading this book. Loved the background stories on each of the money managers. I plan on reading it multiple times to fully absorb the ideas. Thank you Mr. William Green for creating this masterpiece!

-Richard Lam (author of BIOGRAFEATS, Life Lessons of Courage, Perseverance, and Triumph)

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Ben

Terrific and Powerful Book

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2021

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I fear that when people first encounter this book that they will mistake it for a book about how to quickly get rich. It's not going to tell you how to do that (although it may give you a sense of how to get rich very slowly).

What it does it describe what the author has learned as a journalist from his relationships with select billionaires such as Pabrai, Marks, Van Den Berg, Templeton, Sleep, Gaynor, Town, Eveillard, etc. The result is really profound lessons about the impermanence of life, how "everything passes, everything changes" as Bob Dylan once wrote. Lessons about enduring the harsher parts of life and not feeling sorry for yourself. About how we can best deal with uncertainty.

I think most non-investors will enjoy reading this book - even though it is really geared to an audience of investors. It doesn't come from a perspective of greed as so many books about money do, but from one of humility and grace and trying to discover how to be the best we can be in service to others. Munger would say that the best way to enjoy success is to deserve it, and this is a book about the ways to deserve it. Not cheaply gain it.

I'd put it up their with The Outsiders, The Joys of Compounding, and The Education of a Value Investor as some of the best books related to investing that I've read.

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Elisa Ovadia

Great book and worth reading

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2021

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I was immediately drawn to book since I follow Buffett, Munger, Mohnish Pabrai, Howard Marks, Tom Gaynor, Guy Spier, and Phil Town. This book was like reading Harry Potter the day it was released. This book summarizes how to think about long term investing in the only way that has consistently beaten the market over long periods of time. The content of this book is fantastic but I find it frustrating that the author states multiple times that he is a writer and not specialized in investing like the best minds he has interviewed and therefore indexing, diversification, and giving your money to a low cost fund is often the best choice for himself and many others. I completely disagree. As Buffett says, if you have modicum of interest and can be patient you can do well. You must absolutely understand that the power of compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world as Einstein said. Compound interest can work against you, as John Boggle said high fees of 2% kill your average return in the stock market and after 30 years you are left with half as much money compared to that if you have 0% fee. Compound interest can also work for you, as if you seriously study and apply these lessons from the greatest investors and learn how to make an 15%+ average return over 30 years you would have 4 times as much money compared to that if you invest in low cost mutual funds. We live in the 21st century where information is free and open to everyone and it is a level playing field. The cost/benefit of not investing long term like Buffett-Munger and others is too high. Start taking responsibility for your money and your future and learn to invest the proper way. No excuses for anyone. Awesome book.

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Jack Jurgovan

Heavy on the wisdom and happiness, less so on the riches

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2023

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Great book - filled with wisdom. This is what I imagine a modern version of William Thorndike's The Outsiders would be. A fantastic collection of great investors of different eras. In my opinion, this book contains far more worldly wisdom than tactical investment advice.

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Reviewed in Canada on July 6, 2023

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Van Den Berg said that prosperity takes into account all of these, and I agree with him on that.
HAPPINESS, WEALTH, HEALTH, AND PEACE OF MIND

A prosperous person is that, not just someone who has a lot of money.

Lecram

Great Book

Reviewed in Mexico on July 24, 2022

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A book with great teachings and advice from the greatest investors, a very good compendium of interviews, theses, methods of mind control and measurement as well as strategies.

Hamza

Fantastic book, 100x better than psychology of money

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2024

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Excellent book on investing. Good advice from the best minds in the investment world. My only complaint is that the footnotes were awkwardly placed and this disrupted the flow of sentences but the information is top class.