How Not to Invest

The ideas, numbers, and behaviors that destroy wealth—and how to avoid them

De: Barry Ritholtz

Narrado por: Barry Ritholtz, Nathan Adams Stark - foreword

This book was designed to reduce mistakes.

Your mistakes with money.

Tiny errors, epic fails and everything in between.

You can do thousands of things right, but make just a few of the errors we discuss, and you destroy much of your portfolio.

If you could learn how to avoid the unforced errors investors make all the time, you would make your life so much richer and less stressful.

The counterintuitive truth is avoiding errors is much more important than scoring wins.

How Not To Invest shows you a few simple tools and models that will help you avoid the most common mistakes people make with their money. Learn these, and you are ahead of 98% of your peers.

Make fewer errors, end up with more money.

We all make mistakes. The goal with this book is to help you make fewer of them, and to have the mistakes you do make be less expensive.

©2025 Barry Ritholtz (P)2025 Harriman House

Like the author recording in his own voice

Liked many of the complex viewpoints simplified for the basic mind of a lay investor

Excellent

A must read for any aspiring investor. I would argue even the professional investor class would greatly benefit.

Excellent!

Enlightening, so many blind spots and obvious mistakes that we all have made. Extremely helpful to any investor at any chapter in their investment life. RWM is one of the best resources for the individual investor today. The books, the podcasts and YouTube vids from RWM are extremely helpful. Must reads and viewing for today’s investors. Great work Barry!

Great Narration

Solid information, even though it is a reiteration of topics covered by others. A standout because of the narration performance and the interesting stories.

Worth every second. Listen to it.

I do not like investing books; most are nonsense, but “How Not to Invest” is different. The title is apt, and the behaviour to avoid is clearly outlined. This book provides an education and learning that would take a lifetime of mistakes to figure out. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in money, and their financial security all without bothering too much about market conditions.