The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Who would want one's children growing up buying things like bitcoin? I hope to God my family doesn't buy it. It's noxious… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It took us months of buying all the Coke stock we could to accumulate $1 billion worth - equal to 7% of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We may well have a competitive advantage buying decent businesses at decent prices. But they won't be fabulous businesses and fabulous prices.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See's, we've made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners. These opportunity… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you've got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Look at those hedge funds - you think they can wait? They don't know how to wait! I have sat for years… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn't understand both is a damned… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The great lesson in microeconomics is to discriminate between when technology is going to help you and when it's going to kill you. And… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Some years ago one oil company bought a fertilizer company, and every other major oil company practically ran out and bought a fertilizer company.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
They [Mc Donalds] take people and give them a first job, which enables them to get a second job. They do a very good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
![“They [Mc Donalds] take people and give them a first job, which enables them to get a second job. They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens and they're probably more successful than charter schools.” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a55/charlie-munger-458_be-good_they-mc-donalds-take-people-and-give-the_41809.jpg)
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