How the Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life | William Green | TEDxBerkshires

William Green is the author of Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life. Over the last 25 years, he’s spent hundreds of hours interviewing many legendary investors, exploring the question of what insights, principles, traits, and habits enable them to achieve spectacular wealth and enduring success. In this talk, he shares some of the most valuable lessons he’s learned from the best investors -- lessons that can help us not only to become richer, but to think better and build lives that are abundant in the ways that matter most.

As a journalist, William has written for many leading publications, including The New Yorker, Time, Fortune, Forbes, Barron’s, Money, Worth, Bloomberg Markets, and The Economist. He has reported in places as diverse as China, India, Japan, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Mexico, England, France, Monaco, Poland, Russia, and Italy. He has interviewed presidents and prime ministers, prize-winning authors, inventors, criminals, the CEOs of some of the world’s largest companies, and countless billionaires.

While living in London, William edited the European, Middle Eastern, and African editions of Time. Before that, he lived in Hong Kong, where he edited the Asian edition of Time. He now lives in New York with his wife, Lauren, and their two children, Henry and Madeleine. Over the last quarter of a century, William Green has interviewed presidents and prime ministers, inventors, criminals, prize-winning authors, the CEOs of some of the world’s largest companies, and countless billionaires for The New Yorker, Time, Fortune, Forbes, Barron’s, Fast Company, Money, Worth, Bloomberg Markets, and The Economist amongst other publications.

His most recent book Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World’s Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life is is based on some of his work in which he has interviewed many of the world’s best investors, exploring in-depth the question of what qualities and insights enable them to achieve enduring success.

[Higuannn]

The 1% of rich people think of how to invest their money to increase their wealth during the recession. While 99% of struggling hard-luck people think of how to survive without food and daily necessities in the recession and the coming hyperinflation

[manishchandak]

Thanks a lot for your wonderful TED talk. Key Takeaways: 1) Simplify - Reduce complexity. 2) Learn art of subtraction. 3) Reduce mental clutter. 4) One-pointed attention. 5) Less is more. 6) Unclutter your schedule. 7) Focus on one thing relentlessly. 6) Reduce standard stupidities. 7) Avoid idiotic behaviour. 8) Simply avoid catastrophe. 9) Invert, always invert. 10) Keep things simple. 11) Survive - Stay in the game. Follow above rules to be Richer, wiser and happier.

[HodgeChris]

Putting well-earned money into the stock market can be over emphasized for first-time investors, unlike a bank where interest is sure thing! Well, basically times are uncertain, the market is out of control, and banks are gradually failing. I am working on a ballpark estimate of $5M for retirement, and I have a good 6-figure loaded up for this, could there be any opportunity for a boomer like me? I'm nearly 60.

[btgreenhouses]

So many pieces of advices in one lecture.
Thanks man
Stay blessed

[hitheshmangalore]

Wow excellent Talk. Thanks William. I enjoy all your talks. Thanks for educating us. God Bless

[misasylvester]

Sam - appreciate your honesty and humility. Happy to hear your success stories and most importantly empowering others they can do it too!

[trainingwood]

Bravooo William it is a great speech, it is obvious that by emulating greatness you became great. After watching your podcasts I found out about your book and currently reading Richer, Wiser, Happier. Thank you.

[JordanReam]

I had $150K in cash savings sitting in the bank with minimal gains, so I decided to invest in stocks after hearing about people profiting even during market crashes to. However, my portfolio isn't performing as well. How should I invest to accumulate wealth?

[jroig]

As someone who managed to become financially independent I couldn't agree more with everything he said. Avoiding idiotic behaviour is so extremely important, and focusing on the few things that matter: health and good relationships

[JosephineGaule]

I often wonder how top level investors are able to become millionaires by investing. Just made a home sale and I’ve been sitting on about $545K equity, not sure where to go from here. Is it a good time to buy into stocks or do I stay 100% cash?

[williamwightman]

"What is the downside if I am wrong?" Very important in every aspect of life.

[perrykumar]

Everyone should listen to your speech and live by it to have a happy life.

[patmceffer]

Great talk with the best tip right at the end! Thankyou

[chanduprajan]

William, really benefitted from your talk and your fantastic book, thank you very much.

[higherheights]

“You have to survive. You have to stay in the game.”

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[luciali]

Greetings from Taiwan, Hi Mr. Green, your book is so informative/inspiring and fun to read. This TED talk is also top notch, thank you!

[florentlabeille]

Very nice talk.
I read your book and loved it.
This is very inspiring.

I liked that you added in this talk some other personal stories.

Your advice are great.

To everyone interested in value investing, you should definitely read William's book. It is fabulous.

[VaskoGG]

Great talk William, thank you! The book is awesome and is bound to be an investment classic.

[BogumilBaranowski]

Very inspiring, thank you for sharing, and an amazing book, highly recommend it!

[AdamJMeadTheOraclesClassroom]

How fitting this talk was at Berkshires! Wonderful work, William!