I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We like our current shareholders and don't want to entice anyone to become one. It would help current shareholders to hear our… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Why would you want to invest with a guy whose thought process says, "If a second layer of fees is good, then… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Some people seem to think there's no trouble just because it hasn't happened yet. If you jump out the window at the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It's such a simple… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In investment management today, everybody wants not only to win, but to have a yearly outcome path that never diverges very much… — 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
"[Lawyers who file class-action securities suits] is not a group you would want to marry into your family. "That said, more than… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I don't want to sell credit to people who are going to hurt themselves with it. You should only sell products that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that… — 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
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think that if you have a single payer system and an opt-out for people who want to pay more [for better… — 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