MI131: Richer, Wiser, Happier w/ William Green
The Intrinsic Value Podcast - The Investor’s Podcast Network
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4.6 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.8 | Most people thought that Amazon.com was going to go bankrupt. |
| 0:06.1 | And so Amazon had fallen from $90 a share to about $6 a share at the time, which is hard |
| 0:12.0 | to think of, $6 a share. |
| 0:14.4 | And Bill had bought 15% of the company. |
| 0:17.6 | And I saw him in an event get pillorated for this by a bunch of his peers |
| 0:21.3 | in the value investing community. We're like, this thing's going to go bankrupt. And he says, |
| 0:25.1 | look, I may be wrong. And if I'm wrong, I'm going to lose 100% of my money. And if I'm right, |
| 0:30.8 | which I think I am, I'm going to make 50 times my money. |
| 0:37.4 | Man, oh man, am I excited to bring you today's guest, William Green. |
| 0:42.3 | William is the author of Richer, Wiser, Happier, How the World's Greatest Investors Win |
| 0:46.9 | in Markets in Life. |
| 0:48.5 | Over the last quarter of a century, he has interviewed many of the world's best investors |
| 0:52.6 | exploring in-depth the question of what qualities |
| 0:55.6 | and insights enable them to achieve enduring success. He's written extensively about investing for many |
| 1:01.8 | leading publications such as time, fortune, Forbes, Barons, The Economists, and many others. During the |
| 1:09.0 | episode, I chat with William about how the greatest |
| 1:11.7 | investors taught him how to live a better life, the lessons William learned in simplifying |
| 1:16.7 | one's investment approach. What it takes to know if you're ready to buy individual stocks and |
| 1:21.9 | try to outperform the market. Why investing in mundanity is often a very profitable strategy, William's biggest takeaways |
| 1:29.4 | in interviewing and studying Charlie Munger, and much, much more. My favorite parts of the |
| 1:35.0 | episode were the fantastic stories about Sir John Templeton investing in bankrupt companies |
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