William Green has spent a quarter century interviewing the world's best investors for major financial magazines, and this book distils that unique archive: hours of conversation with Charlie Munger, Howard Marks, John Templeton, Mohnish Pabrai, Nick Sleep, Joel Greenblatt, and Laura Geritz.
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William Green distilled twenty-five years of interviews with the world's best investors — Munger, Marks, Templeton, Pabrai, Sleep — into a book that goes beyond technique: the mental habits, life philosophy, and relationship with risk shared by those who beat the market for decades.
William Green has spent a quarter century interviewing the world's best investors for major financial magazines, and this book distils that unique archive: hours of conversation with Charlie Munger, Howard Marks, John Templeton, Mohnish Pabrai, Nick Sleep, Joel Greenblatt, and Laura Geritz. His central finding is that great investors resemble each other less in their techniques — which diverge — than in their way of being in the world: they are insatiable learners, they simplify aggressively, they stand apart from the herd comfortably, they obsess over what can go wrong before what can go right, and they structure their entire lives to think calmly. Green writes with an elegance rare in the genre and with an explicit thesis: investing properly understood is a school of practical philosophy, and the qualities that make money — patience, intellectual honesty, equanimity — are the same ones that make a better life. The risk of the approach is hagiography, and Green doesn't always dodge it; but as a synthesis of proven investing wisdom, few recent books match it.
For investors at any level seeking principles and mental models from the best, rather than specific analytical techniques.
FactGreen interviewed more than forty elite investors over twenty-five years to write the book, published in 2021 and in Spanish by Valor Editions in 2022.
