Charlie Munger Quotes

Browse 13 quotes from Charlie Munger, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at.
Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life.
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid instead of trying to be very intelligent.
Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.
The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.
Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don't.
The first rule of compounding: never interrupt it unnecessarily.

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