In Richer, Wiser, Happier, William Green draws on hundreds of hours of interviews that he has conducted over the last quarter of a century with a pantheon of legendary investors. Green, a veteran journalist whose writing has appeared in publications such as Time, Fortune, Forbes, Barron’s, Bloomberg Markets, The Economist, and The New Yorker, interviewed more than forty of the world’s super-investors specifically for this book, reporting everywhere from Los Angeles to London, Omaha to Mumbai. Between them, the investment titans he spotlights here have overseen trillions of dollars on behalf of millions of people.

This landmark book sheds new light on two overarching questions: What principles, processes, insights, habits, and personality traits enable the most successful investors to beat the market in the long run and become spectacularly rich? More important, how can we profit by studying these financial outliers and reverse engineering their winning ways?

Green invites us into the lives and minds of fascinating figures such as Charlie Munger, Ed Thorp, Sir John Templeton, Howard Marks, Joel Greenblatt, Bill Miller, Will Danoff, Mohnish Pabrai, and countless others to reveal how they think and why they win.

As Green reveals, the greatest investors can teach us about much more than getting rich. They are pragmatic free thinkers who search far and wide for any insights that can give them an edge both in markets and life. They borrow liberally from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economic history, psychology, philosophy, biology, sports, math, spirituality, and the science of habit formation. Above all, they are master game players with an invaluable ability to think dispassionately about probabilities, trade-offs between risk and reward, and the importance of avoiding standard errors that can lead to catastrophe. This book shows you how they achieve enduring success by thinking rationally and systematically stacking the odds in their favor.