Charlie Munger Quotes: 30+ Wise Quotes About Life and Investing

Charlie Munger Quotes: 30+ Wise Quotes About Life and Investing

30+ Charlie Munger Quotes About Life, Investing and Success

1. “The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.” — Charlie Munger
2. “I think, every time you hear the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word ‘bullshit earnings.’” — Charlie Munger
3. “The first rule of compounding: Never interrupt it unnecessarily.” — Charlie Munger
4. “The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.” — Charlie Munger
5. “Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.” — Charlie Munger
6. “The big money is not in the buying or selling, but in the waiting.” — Charlie Munger
7. “Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.” — Charlie Munger
8. “I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines.” — Charlie Munger
9. “All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.” — Charlie Munger
10. “It’s not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.” — Charlie Munger
11. “The best way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.” — Charlie Munger
12. “Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.” — Charlie Munger
13. “A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you really want to avoid.” — Charlie Munger
14. “The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want.” — Charlie Munger
15. “Take a simple idea and take it seriously.” — Charlie Munger
16. “Those who keep learning will keep rising in life.” — Charlie Munger
17. “You don’t have to have a lot of brains to make a lot of money in this world.” — Charlie Munger
18. “The iron rule of life is that only twenty percent can be top-quintile.” — Charlie Munger
19. “If you keep learning all the time you have a huge advantage.” — Charlie Munger
20. “There is no better teacher than history in determining the future.” — Charlie Munger
21. “In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read a lot.” — Charlie Munger
22. “The game of life is the game of everlasting learning.” — Charlie Munger
23. “You have to have the habit of reexamining old ideas.” — Charlie Munger
24. “The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.” — Charlie Munger
25. “We both insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, just to sit and think.” — Charlie Munger
26. “A majority of life’s errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do.” — Charlie Munger
27. “The safest way to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want.” — Charlie Munger
28. “If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to learn continuously.” — Charlie Munger
29. “Invert, always invert.” — Charlie Munger
30. “The psychology of human misjudgment is a very important subject.” — Charlie Munger
31. “You must know the big ideas in all the disciplines.” — Charlie Munger
32. “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid.” — Charlie Munger
33. “The best way to avoid mistakes is to learn from the mistakes of others.” — Charlie Munger
34. “If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by.” — Charlie Munger
35. “Live within your income and save so that you can invest.” — Charlie Munger

Charlie Munger was a well known American investor, a businessman and also a lawyer. He also served as the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Charlie Munger was also the business partner of Warren Buffett. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He took mathematics and completed his education from the University of Michigan and he later completed a law degree from the Harvard Law School. Later, Charlie Munger shifted his career from law into business and investing, basically he became a investor. Charlie Munger was famous for his practical approach of mindset for rational thinking, discipline, investing, patience and he is also famous for understanding human behaviour. Alongwith Warren Buffett, he helped to built Berkshire Hathaway into one of the World's famous investment companies. People's also says that Munger was has very sharp wit and memorable observations about business, decision-making and most importantly about the life. At the age of 99 years old, on November 28, 2023, Charlie Munger passed away and left behind not only his legacy but also his words in the form his memorable and motivational quotes.