Charlie Munger Quotes

Crooks, crazies, egomaniacs, people full of resentment, people full of self-pity, people who feel like victims, there's a lot of things that aren't going to work for you. Figure out what they are and then avoid them like the plague.

A friend of mine says a good day when you're old is when you wake up in the morning and nothing new hurts.

I think it's part of a life lived right that you learn how to make some lemonade out of your lemons.

Warren and I are chicken about buying stocks on margin. There's always a slight chance of catastrophe when you own securities pledged to others. The ideal is to borrow in a way no temporary thing can disturb you.

If you totally divorce economics from psychology, you've gone a long way toward divorcing it from reality.

Understanding both the power of compound return and the difficulty getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.

Beating the market averages, after paying substantial costs and fees, is an against-the-odds game; yet a few people can do it, particularly those who view it as a game full of craziness with an occasional mispriced something or other.

Perhaps the most important rule in management is "Get the incentives right."

The whole trick in life is to get so that your own brain doesn't mislead you.

If you’re going to be in this game for the long pull, which is the way to do it, you better be able to handle a 50% decline without fussing too much about it.

If you're capable of being reasonable, it's a moral failure to be unreasonable when you have a capacity to be reasonable.

My definition of being properly educated is being right, when the professor is wrong.

The whole trick of the game is to have a few times when you know that something is better than average and invest only where you have that extra knowledge.

Never underestimate the man who overestimates himself. These weird guys who overestimate themselves occasionally knock it right out of the park.

Modern life creates successful bureaucracy and successful bureaucracy breeds failure and stupidity.

My system in life is to figure out what's really stupid and then avoid it. It doesn't make me popular, but it prevents a lot of trouble.

The great lesson in microeconomics is to discriminate between when technology is going to help you and when it’s going to kill you.

It’s not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time.

Averaged out, betting on the quality of a business is better than betting on the quality of management. In other words, if you have to choose one, bet on the business momentum, not the brilliance of the manager.

There are huge advantages for an individual to get into a position where you make a few great investments and just sit back. You're paying less to brokers. You're listening to less nonsense.