This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Coval.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

So if you wanted to know how to be richer, how to be wiser, how to be happier, where would

you start? You might want to start with those people that had made the massive fortunes.

Now, of course, not all people that make a massive fortune are happy. They're not necessarily all

wise, but some of them are. My guest today, William

Green, has spent a career finding them. I'm talking the biggest names, the Charlie Mungers, the

Jack Bogle's, the Ed Thorpes, all of those guys, plus a lot more over 25 years, getting to sit down with them in person to spend days to really find out what makes them tick, at least to the best that he can and then give it back to us.

I really think I'm going to have to have William on again and let him really dive deep

into some of these individual people because, gosh, their insights are going to be so amazing.

The way they think, the way they talk.

But without any further delay, let's jump in right now and get a little initial dose of what can make us all a little richer, a little wiser, and a little happier, and how we could figure that all out from some of the world's greatest investors.

I hope you enjoy this conversation with William Green.

You are a guy, if I'm not mistaken, even though you are probably, I'm looking at this list of names and we're going to talk about these investors that you've had a chance to meet with over the years.

There can't be too many people on this planet who have spoken to all of these names in person.

Honestly, you and I, I'm not asking you to brag. Between me and you, less than 10 people,

all of these names? Yeah, I think that's right. I'm close to Jason's wife, who's a columnist,

the Wall Street Journal, and I have a horrible feeling he's interviewed many more people than I

have. But it's hard to think of anyone else who has. I think the thing that's unusual about what I've

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