Charlie Munger Quotes
25 quotes
Charlie Munger
American investor and Warren Buffett's business partner
25 Quotes
I think part of the popularity of Berkshire Hathaway is that we look like people who have found a trick. It’s not brilliance. It’s just avoiding stupidity
— Talk at University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003
The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don't. It's just that simple
— Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Page 204
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up
— Poor Charlie's Almanack
Invert, always invert
— Poor Charlie's Almanack
The great lesson in microeconomics is to discriminate between when technology is going to help you and when it’s going to kill you
— Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 1999
Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant
— Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Page 78
Those who keep learning will keep rising in life
— Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, 2017
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome
— Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting
It takes character to sit with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities
— Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Page 85
If you want to guarantee yourself a life of misery, be sure to marry someone with the intent of changing them
— Poor Charlie's Almanack
Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom
— Poor Charlie's Almanack
You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines and use them routinely—all of them, not just a few
— Poor Charlie's Almanack
All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there
— Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting
The big money is not in the buying and the selling, but in the waiting
— Poor Charlie's Almanack
People calculate too much and think too little
— Poor Charlie's Almanack
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more
— Poor Charlie's Almanack
Take a simple idea and take it seriously
— Poor Charlie's Almanack
If you’re not a little confused by what’s going on, you don’t understand it
— Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2000
The world is not driven by greed. It's driven by envy
— Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2017
If you get a few simple things right in life, most of what can go wrong will not go wrong
— University of Southern California Law School Commencement 2007
You don’t have to pee on an electric fence to learn not to do it
— Poor Charlie's Almanack
The wise man looks for what he can’t see with his eyes
— University of Southern California Law School Commencement Speech, 2007
It’s not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid
— Poor Charlie's Almanack
The iron rule of life is that only 20% of people can be in the top fifth
— Poor Charlie’s Almanack
The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want
— Poor Charlie's Almanack