The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights And you're probably not going… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
...People need to ask, "How do I play the hand that has been dealt me?" The world is not going to give… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: "You don't seem smart enough to be so good at… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
At most corporations if you make an acquisition and it turns out to be a disaster, all the paperwork and presentations that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
So you can get very remarkable investment results if you think more like a winning pari-mutuel player. Just think of it as… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When we were young, there weren't very many smart people in the investment world. You should have seen the people in the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The hedge fund known as "Long Term Capital Management" collapsed last fall through overconfidence in its highly leveraged methods, despite I.Q.'s of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I knew a guy who had $5 million and owned his house free and clear. But he wanted to make a bit… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I'm right, and you're smart, and sooner or later you'll see I'm right. — 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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