Charlie Munger
Charles Thomas Munger was Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation, the diversified investment corporation chaired by investor Warren Buffett.
34 quotes.
Quotes by Charlie Munger
- A majority of life’s errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do.
- Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
- Always take the high road, it’s far less crowded.
- Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you’ve won.
- Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
- Don’t drift into self-pity because it doesn’t solve any problems.
- Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
- I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
- I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.
- If you want to get smart, the question you have to keep asking is why, why, why, why?
- In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time — none, zero.
- In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.
- Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you’re really going to excel in it.
- It’s the work on your desk. Do well with what you already have and more will come in.
- Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
- Live within your income and save so that you can invest.
- My whole system of life is keeping at it. The task of life is not to see clearly in the distance but to do the task at hand.
- Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
- Patience is not just a virtue; it’s a strategy. Success often requires waiting for the right moment to act.
- Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.
- Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets and can be lost in a heartbeat.
- Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
- Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day.
- Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
- Take a simple idea and take it seriously. Simple ideas have been the source of most human success.
- The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
- The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor
- The most important thing is knowing where you are competent and where you aren’t. The human mind tries to make you believe you are smarter than you are. Rub your nose in your mistakes.
- There is no better teacher than history in determining the future. There are answers worth billions of dollars in a $30 history book.
- Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life.
- Three rules for a career: Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire. Work only with people you enjoy.
- To get what you want, deserve what you want. Trust, success, and admiration are earned. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule so to speak: You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.
- You fix what can be fixed, and what can't be fixed you endure.
- You’re not going to get very far in life on the basis of what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn.