The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you're going to buy something which compounds for 30 years at 15% per annum and you pay one 35% tax at… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The lawyers have escaped most criticism [and undeservedly so]. The tax shelters [were approved by lawyers, who got paid huge commissions to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane.… — 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
I talked to one accountant, a very nice fellow who I would have been glad to have his family marry into mine.… — 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
![“You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me that they're better [than the others] because they only sold [the schemes] to their top-20 clients, so no-one would notice.” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/421/charlie-munger-458_clients_you-ll-better-understand-the-evil-when-t_2315705.jpg)
![“The lawyers have escaped most criticism [and undeservedly so]. The tax shelters [were approved by lawyers, who got paid huge commissions to do so] and every miscreant had a high-falutin' lawyer at his side. Why don't more law firms vote with their feet and not take clients who have signs on them…” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18b/charlie-munger-458_approved_the-lawyers-have-escaped-most-criticism_2142390.jpg)
![“I talked to one accountant, a very nice fellow who I would have been glad to have his family marry into mine. He said, "What these other accounting firms have done is very unethical. The [tax avoidance scheme] works best if it's not found out [by the IRS], so we only give it to our best clients…” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b14/charlie-munger-458_accountants_i-talked-to-one-accountant-a-very-nice-f_2980092.jpg)
![“They [Mc Donalds] take people and give them a first job, which enables them to get a second job. They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens and they're probably more successful than charter schools.” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a55/charlie-munger-458_be-good_they-mc-donalds-take-people-and-give-the_41809.jpg)
![“It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that…” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d0/charlie-munger-458_advantage_it-is-way-less-certain-to-be-a-wonderful_59627.jpg)