

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. 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. As he discovered, their talents extend well beyond the financial realm. 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. Clearly, they possess a kind of genius-the proverbial Midas Touch. If we think of them, it’s with a mixture of awe and suspicion. From a renowned financial journalist who has written for Time, Fortune, Forbes, and The New Yorker, a fresh and unexpectedly profound book that draws on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with many of the world’s super-investors to demonstrate that the keys for building wealth hold other life lessons as well.
