People have always had this craving to have someone tell them the future. Long ago, kings would hire people to read sheep… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past. — 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
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
I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it. — 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
The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five… — 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