It's a real pleasure to earn the trust of your customers slowly over time by doing what's right. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, there was a stretch where you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
While no real money came down, my family gave me a good education and a marvelous example of how people should behave,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Suppose you were a real estate investor with a 1/3 interest in the best apartment complex in town, the best mall, and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you take sales presentations and brokers of commercial real estate and businesses... I'm 70 years old, I've never seen one I… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real… — 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… — 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