Fooled by Randomness vs I Will Teach You to Be Rich: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Fooled by Randomness Fooled by Randomness Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2001 ★★★★☆ 4.1 316 pages · ≈ 5 h 51 m · Moderate

"[Taleb is] Wall Street's principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther's ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church."--Malcolm Gladwell,…

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Cover of I Will Teach You to Be Rich I Will Teach You to Be Rich Ramit Sethi · 2009 ★★★★☆ 4.4 272 pages · ≈ 5 h 02 m · Moderate

At last, for a generation that's materially ambitious yet financially clueless comes I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Ramit Sethi's 6-week personal finance program for 20-to-35-year-olds. A completely practical approach…

The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Fooled by RandomnessI Will Teach You to Be Rich
Goodreads 4.1 (73501) 3.6 (9)
Hardcover 3.9 (203) 4.0 (1)
Apple Books 4.5 (170) 4.5 (414)

Reception

Fooled by RandomnessI Will Teach You to Be Rich
Ratings 73501 414
Editions 19 13
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read 120837 14
Pages 316 272

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