It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one. — 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
We only want what success we can get despite encouraging others to share our general view about reality. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it's time. — 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
Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just… — 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
In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few… — 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
Ben Franklin and Samuel Johnson, he credits their wisdom for his success. "They were both utterly brilliant men. And powerful communicators. Both… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is… — 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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