Charlie Munger Quotes

Browse 11 quotes from Charlie Munger, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
— Charlie Munger
The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
— Charlie Munger
The first rule of compounding: never interrupt it unnecessarily.
— Charlie Munger
My definition of being properly educated is being right when the professor is wrong.
— Charlie Munger
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
— Charlie Munger
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
— Charlie Munger
Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.
— Charlie Munger
Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.
— Charlie Munger
Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.
— Charlie Munger
You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.
— Charlie Munger
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.
— Charlie Munger

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