Richer, Wiser, Happier
Green spent twenty-five years interviewing the great investors, Templeton, Marks, Miller, Pabrai, and kept asking about character instead of stock picks. What emerges is a book about resilience, simplicity, and the long game, in markets and outside them. The rare recent finance book built entirely around temperament.
Readers expecting a concrete investing method get biography and mindset instead, and more than one calls the book “heavily overrated by a large number of amateur value investing YouTubers.” The maxims repeat past the point of use, buy good businesses cheap, be patient, tune out the noise, chapter after chapter without building on themselves. A sharper complaint calls the profile selection “Hero worship, winner’s bias, and superficial journalist book all rolled into one,” with little interrogation of luck against skill. Specific lines draw direct fire too: Mohnish Pabrai’s description of buying stocks as “orgasmic” gets singled out as overreach, and one reader dismisses the whole enthusiasm around it, insisting “the large number of 5-star reviews are bots.” The verdict from that camp is blunt: “You will be wiser and happier skipping this one.”
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
