The Art of Investing: Lessons from History’s Greatest Investors By John M. Longo

Great investors like Warren Buffett and Ray Dalio will tell you they’re no geniuses; they’re simply observant, open-minded, and industrious. Using these key traits, the world’s most outstanding traders have employed a remarkable mix of strategies to build huge fortunes. Their careers are a how-to manual for anyone who wants to succeed at investing.

The lives of rich and famous investors are gripping tales of opportunities seized and squandered; of billions won and lost, and won again. And these life stories are also an eye-opening education in the workings of financial markets.

The Art of Investing: Lessons from History’s Greatest Investors profiles over 30 men and women at the pinnacle of the investing field, including Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio, John Bogle, Peter Lynch, George Soros, Linda Bradford Raschke, David Dreman, Michael Burry, and others involved in such ventures as value stocks, growth stocks, mutual funds, index funds, hedge funds, commodity futures, private equity, sovereign wealth, distressed assets, and more.

Each lecture covers one of these approaches, together with traders who have made it pay handsomely—along with insights on how they did it. An award-winning teacher and the portfolio manager for a $2.5-billion investment firm, Professor John Longo of Rutgers Business School tells these intriguing life stories with an insider’s grasp of the financial details. In the last lecture, he provides an investment checklist that lets you narrow down your own best approach to building personal wealth.