We don’t like trading agony for money
CHARLIE MUNGERWe don’t like trading agony for money
CHARLIE MUNGERIt’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.
CHARLIE MUNGEROpportunity comes to the prepared mind.
CHARLIE MUNGERYour life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
CHARLIE MUNGERA lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
CHARLIE MUNGERIt’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
CHARLIE MUNGERTo the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
CHARLIE MUNGERShow me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
CHARLIE MUNGERYou’re not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here.
CHARLIE MUNGERSpend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
CHARLIE MUNGERAll I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
CHARLIE MUNGERI never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.
CHARLIE MUNGERAny year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
CHARLIE MUNGERA foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: “You don’t seem smart enough to be so good at what you’re doing. Do you have an explanation?”
CHARLIE MUNGERAcknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
CHARLIE MUNGERThe best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
CHARLIE MUNGER