It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I feel that by getting rich in the way I did, I think my own example has hurt my own country. — 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
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
The cost of being a publicly traded stock has gone way, way up. It doesn't make sense for a little company to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There are exceptional loyalties and there are old fashion ideas about how you get loyalties, and after all the auditorium is full… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Sears had layers and layers of people it didn't need. It was very bureaucratic. It was slow to think. And there was… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines, and use them routinely - all of them, not just a few.… — 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