THE SEVEN VIRTUES OF GREAT INVESTORS

Instead of trying to control the markets, great investors focus on controlling themselves - by systematically cultivating a set of personality traits that can only be called virtues.

A book that will develop, for today's investors, a concept first proposed by Benjamin Graham in 1949: Success in the financial markets goes not to the smartest, but to the wisest. Based on Jason Zweig's popular column in the Wall Street Journal, the weekly INTELLIGENT INVESTOR. The world's greatest investors share these positive qualities; without them, such financial titans as Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Peter Lynch, Jack Bogle, John Templeton, John Rogers, Bill Miller, and Jim Simons would be forgotten mediocrities. Jason Zweig sketched out the seven virtues in several columns at The Wall Street Journal, as well as in the newsletter on the WSJ platform. "Judging by the response from Wall Street Journal readers and the more than 310,000 subscribers to the newsletter, these were among the most popular pieces I've written in my three-decade-long career." Before joining The Wall Street Journal, Zweig was a senior writer at Money and a columnist at Time; earlier, he was the mutual-funds editor at Forbes. He is a frequent public speaker and a featured guest on radio, television, and podcasts. A graduate of Columbia University, Zweig has over 200,000 followers on Twitter; his WSJ newsletter, also called "The Intelligent Investor," has more than 310,000 subscribers.