The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life.… — 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
There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You have to realize the truth of biologist Julian Huxley's idea that 'Life is just one damn relatedness after another' "So you… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest -- sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A lot of opportunities in life tend to last a short while, due to some temporary inefficiency... For each of us, really… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder than it used to be.'… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The average result has to be the average result. By definition, everybody can't beat the market. As I always say, the iron… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When I run into a paradox I think either I'm a total horse's ass to have gotten to this point, or I'm… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You're not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You're going to advance in life by… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you're unhappy with what you've had over the last 50 years, you have an unfortunate misappraisal of life. It's as good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization.… — 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
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
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