29 Brilliant Quotes About Life and Investing by Charlie Munger

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29 Brilliant Quotes About Life And Investing By Charlie Munger

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Don't drift into self-pity because it doesn't solve any problems.

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"Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge and self-pity are disastrous modes of thoughts. Self-pity gets fairly close to paranoia, and
paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse. You do not want to drift into self-pity. ... Self-pity will not improve the situation."
Source: Charlie Munger USC Law Commencement Speech, May 2007 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkLHxMWAZgQ)
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to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you."
Source: Charlie Munger USC Law Commencement Speech, May 2007 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u81l7rM2yl8)
At a certain point, you have to suck it up and cope.

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the terrible blow in constructive fashion. That is a very good idea."

Source: Charlie Munger USC Law Commencement Speech, May 2007 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYLPYcOiRFI)
Real knowledge is knowing that you don't know anything.

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"Confucius said that real knowledge is knowing the extent of one’s ignorance. Aristotle and Socrates said the same thing. Is it a skill that can
be taught or learned? It probably can, if you have enough of a stake riding on the outcome. Some people are extraordinarily good at knowing
the limits of their knowledge, because they have to be. Think of somebody who’s been a professional tightrope walker for 20 years – and has
survived. He couldn’t survive as a tightrope walker for 20 years unless he knows exactly what he knows and what he doesn’t know. He’s
worked so hard at it, because he knows if he gets it wrong he won’t survive. The survivors know. ... Knowing what you don’t know is more
useful than being brilliant."
Source: The Wall Street Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/09/12/a-fireside-chat-with-charlie-munger/) (http://www.businessinsider.in/Europes-anti-immigration-
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If you're lazy and unreliable, it doesn't matter what you're good at.
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"What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you’re unreliable it doesn’t matter what your virtues are. You're
going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid
sloth and unreliability."
There's a lot of stupidity on the part of major philanthropic groups.

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"I’ve seen so much folly and stupidity on the part of our major philanthropic groups, including the World Bank. I really have more confidence
in building up the more capitalistic ventures like Costco."
Don't overspend. Even Mozart couldn't get away with doing that.
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"Another thing that does one in, of course, is the self-serving bias to which we’re all subject. You think the 'True Little Me' is entitled to do what
it wants to do. And, for instance, why shouldn’t the True Little Me overspend my income. There once was a man who became the most
famous composer in the world but was utterly miserable most of the time, and one of the reasons was because he always overspent his
income. That was Mozart. If Mozart can’t get by with this kind of asinine conduct, I don’t think you should try."
Avoid extremely intense ideology because it ruins your mind.

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"Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one’s mind. ... When you’re young it’s easy to
drift into loyalties and when you announce that you’re a loyal member and you start shouting the orthodox ideology out, what you’re doing is
pounding it in, pounding it in, and you’re gradually ruining your mind."
Keep it simple.
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"One of the greatest ways to avoid trouble is to keep it simple. When you make it vastly complicated—and only a few high priests in each
department can pretend to understand it—what you’re going to find all too often is that those high priests don’t really understand it at all….
The system often goes out of control."
Source: Wesco Financial annual meeting, 2008 (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/38_Munger_0.pdf) (quoted in Stanford
Business School paper)
Optimistic accounting leads to 99% of problems.

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"Ninety-nice percent of the troubles that threaten our civilization come from too optimistic accounting. And yet these damn accountants with
their desire for mathematical purity want to devote exactly as much attention to accounting that is too pessimistic as they do to accounting
that is too optimistic — which is crazy. Ninety-nie percent of the problems come from being too optimistic. Therefore, we should have a
system where the accounting is way more conservative."
Assets require more scrutiny than the liabilities.
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"The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about."
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"People should take way less than they're worth when they are favored by life... I would argue that when you rise high enough in American
business, you’ve got a moral duty to be underpaid— not to get all that you can, but to actually be underpaid."
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"'No man is fit to hold office who isn't perfectly willing to leave it at any time,'... I think that ought to be more the test in corporate directorships.
Is a man really fit to make tough calls who isn't willing to leave the office at any time? My answer is no."
Source: Berkshire Hathaway 1995 Annual Meeting (quoted in Stanford Business School paper (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files
/38_Munger_0.pdf))
"One solution fits all" doesn't work.

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"'One solution fits all' is not the way to go. All these cultures are different. The right culture for the Mayo Clinic is different from the right culture
at a Hollywood movie studio. You can't run all these places with a cookie-cutter solution."
Source: Stanford University Director's College (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/38_Munger_0.pdf), June 26, 2006. (quoted in
Stanford Business School paper)
Many successful organizations have fewer (rather than more) controls.

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"A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance — checks and double checks and so forth — you could create a
better result in the world. Well, Berkshire has had practically no process. We had hardly any internal auditing until they forced it on us. We
just try to operate in a seamless web of deserved trust and be careful whom we trust."
Deserved trust is the most important thing.

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"The highest form that civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust — not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly
trusting one another. ... In your own life what you want is a seamless web of deserved trust. And if your proposed marriage contract has
forty-seven pages, I suggest you not enter."
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
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"It's waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can't stand to wait. If you didn't get the deferred-gratification gene, you've
got to work very hard to overcome that.”
Source: The Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-secrets-of-berkshires-success-an-interview-with-charlie-munger-
1410543815)
He wanted to be rich in order to be independent.

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"Like Warren, I had a considerable passion to get rich, not because I wanted Ferrari's – I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it."
Source: Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (http://books.google.com/books?id=MFkKf4zIqbkC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&
dq=%22Like+Warren,+I+had+a+considerable+passion+to+get+rich,+not+because+I+wanted+Ferraris+%E2%80
%93+I+wanted+the+independence.+I+desperately+wanted+it%22&source=bl&ots=7BKz4G8thv&sig=kt_4j1_v2aLqdlhbR7XuiAnqKr8&
hl=en&sa=X&ei=uyMkVL7WC5L3yQSjuIDgBA&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Like%20Warren
%2C%20I%20had%20a%20considerable%20passion%20to%20get%20rich%2C%20not%20because%20I%20wanted%20Ferraris%20%E2
%80%93%20I%20wanted%20the%20independence.%20I%20desperately%20wanted%20it%22&f=false)
Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty.

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"Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It’s not something you do just to advance in life. Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. As a corollary to
that proposition which is very important, it means that you are hooked for lifetime learning. And without lifetime learning, you people are not
going to do very well. You are not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you
learn after you leave here."
Source: Charlie Munger USC Law Commencement Speech, May 2007 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u81l7rM2yl8)
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School is not a prerequisite.

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“To this day, I have never taken a course anywhere, in chemistry, economics, psychology, or business.”
Source: Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/augustturak/2012/02/13/charlie-mungers-valentine-why-finding-true-love-is-like-picking-great-
stocks/)
He learned by reading, not schooling.

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"I met the towering intellectuals in books, not in the classroom, which is natural. I can't remember when I first read Ben Franklin. I had
Thomas Jefferson over my bed at seven or eight. My family was into all that stuff, getting ahead through discipline, knowledge, and
self-control."
Source: Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger (http://books.google.com
/books?id=LhMGSDiQghEC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&
dq=%22I+met+the+towering+intellectuals+in+books,+not+in+the+classroom,+which+is+natural.+I+can%E2%80
%99t+remember+when+I+first+read+Ben+Franklin.+I+had+Thomas+Jefferson+over+my+bed+at+seven+or+eight.+My+family+was+into+all+that+stuff,+getting+ahead+through+discipline,+knowledge,+and+self-
control.%22&source=bl&ots=qOth3XB4mF&sig=04_nrS9GiZT3lV209ElfMwTO9gw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=eyQkVPHuOoKQyAS-goDQAQ&
ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22I%20met%20the%20towering%20intellectuals%20in%20books
%2C%20not%20in%20the%20classroom%2C%20which%20is%20natural.%20I%20can%E2%80
%99t%20remember%20when%20I%20first%20read%20Ben%20Franklin.%20I%20had%20Thomas%20Jefferson%20over%20my%20bed%20at%20seven%20or%20eight.%20My%20family%20was%20into%20all%20that%20stuff
%2C%20getting%20ahead%20through%20discipline%2C%20knowledge%2C%20and%20self-control.%22&f=false)
CEOs should be "empowered" to make decisions without extensive review by the board
of directors.
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"When you have a really complicated place and a good CEO, you want him to have power to speak for the place in dealing with outsiders....
Berkshire Hathaway of course is raised that way. Can you imagine Warren Buffett saying to somebody, 'Well I'm sorry I have to go back and
check with my directors?' I mean, of course he has to go back to check with his directors, but he knows what they're going to say, and
everybody knows that what he says is going to govern."
Source: Stanford University Director's College (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/38_Munger_0.pdf). (quoted in Stanford
Even Ben Graham had a lot to learn as an investor.

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"I don’t love Ben Graham and his ideas the way Warren does. You have to understand, to Warren — who discovered him at such a young
age and then went to work for him — Ben Graham’s insights changed his whole life, and he spent much of his early years worshiping the
master at close range. But I have to say, Ben Graham had a lot to learn as an investor. His ideas of how to value companies were all shaped
by how the Great Crash and the Depression almost destroyed him, and he was always a little afraid of what the market can do. It left him with
an aftermath of fear for the rest of his life, and all his methods were designed to keep that at bay."
Source: The Wall Street Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/09/12/a-fireside-chat-with-charlie-munger/)
The bailouts should've been ever bigger.

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"Hit the economy with enough misery and enough disruption, destroy the currency, and God knows what happens. So I think when you have
troubles like that you shouldn’t be bitching about a little bailout. You should have been thinking it should have been bigger.”
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The fortunate should give back.
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"Those of us who have been very fortunate have a duty to give back. Whether one gives a lot as one goes along as I do, or a little and then a
lot (when one dies) as Warren does, is a matter of personal preference."
Source: Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie T. Munger (http://www.amazon.com/Poor-Charlies-Almanack-Charles-
Expanded/dp/1578645018)
Regarding quick trading of derivatives and stocks.

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It’s like the slaughter of the innocents. It makes the people who run Las Vegas seem like good people.
Source: The Wall Street Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/09/12/a-fireside-chat-with-charlie-munger/)
On Wall Street.
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"Wall Street has too much wealth and political power."

Source: Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/12/charlie-munger-warren-buffett-markets-streettalk-berkshire-hathaway.html)
And his closing advice is...

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"In the end I’m like an Old Valiant for Truth in The Pilgrim’s Progress: 'My sword I leave to him who can wear it.'"
Source: Charlie Munger USC Law Commencement Speech, May 2007 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYLPYcOiRFI)
BONUS: Some additional Munger zingers.

(http://www.businessinsider.in/29-Brilliant-Quotes-About-Life-And-Investing-By-Charlie-Munger/BONUS-Some-additional-Munger-zingers-/slideshow/44007309.cms)
On global warming (http://www.businessinsider.com/buffetts-no-2-charlie-munger-says-cap-and-trade-is-monstrously-stupid-right-now-clip-

2009-5): "So what we are really talking about with global warming is dislocation. Dislocations could cause agony though. The sea level rising
would be resolved with enough time and enough capital. I don't think it's an utter calamity for mankind though. You'd have to be a
pot-smoking journalism to think that."
Regarding Buffett's cancer diagnosis (http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000088395&
play=1#eyJ2aWQiOiIzMDAwMDg4Mzk1IiwiZW5jVmlkIjoieU10VDJBbWtabDRocG4rRVRNSHRLQT09IiwidlRhYiI6ImluZm8iLCJ2UGFnZSI6MSwiZ05hdiI6WyLCoExhdGVzdCBWaWRlbyJdLCJnU2VjdCI6IkFMTCIsImdQYWdlIjoiMSIsInN5bSI6IiIsInNlYXJjaCI6IiJ9):
"I regarded it as a total non-event. I would bet a lot of money that I have more than he does, I don't event allow them to check for it. … So
when my doctor puts down PSA test I just cross it out.”
On Donald Trump (http://www.businessinsider.com/charlie-munger-on-donald-trump-obviously-i-think-hes-a-jerk-2011-5) (according to
Andrew Ross Sorkin): "Obviously I think he's a jerk."
On buying gold (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUpFTM5s4UA): "I think gold is a great thing to sew in to your garments if you're a
Jewish family in Vienna in 1939 but I think civilized people don't buy gold."
On Bitcoin (http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3538085981001/liz-claman-interviews-warren-buffett-charlie-munger-and-bill-gates/#sp=show-
clips): "I think it's rat poison."
On bankers (http://www.cnbc.com/id/100705820): "I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts."
And on investment banking in general (http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/12/charlie-munger-warren-buffett-markets-streettalk-berkshire-
hathaway.html): "There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking."
And how he will be remembered (http://www.cnbc.com/id/101642613): I may be remembered as a wise ass.
BONUS: Warren Buffett wants to be remembered as a teacher, not a businessman.

(http://www.businessinsider.in/29-Brilliant-Quotes-About-Life-And-Investing-By-Charlie-Munger/BONUS-Warren-Buffett-wants-to-be-remembered-as-a-teacher-not-a-businessman-/slideshow/44007312.cms)
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"And I like to ask Warren what he wants to be remembered as, and he says a teacher. Who else in America who is a CEO says he wants to
be remembered as a teacher? I like it."
Source: CNBC interview (http://www.cnbc.com/id/101642613)
And now... check out the other Berkshire Hathaway's other major titan.
(http://www.businessinsider.in/29-Brilliant-Quotes-About-Life-And-Investing-By-Charlie-Munger/And-now-check-out-the-other-Berkshire-Hathaways-other-major-titan-/slideshow/44007314.cms)
17 Facts About Warren Buffett And His Wealth That Will Blow Your Mind >>
(http://www.businessinsider.com/mindblowing-facts-warren-buffett-
2014-8?op=1#ixzz3ELMXaMxH)
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