Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy. — 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
Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses' asses. I know I'll perform better if I rub my nose in my… — 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
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
Since those don’t hit financial reports, the opportunities you had but didn’t accept, most people don’t bother thinking about them very much.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so… — 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
Where you have complexity, by nature you can have fraud and mistakes. You'll have more of that than in a company that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
...in terms of business mistakes that I've seen over a long lifetime, I would say that trying to minimize taxes too much… — 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