"I think the reason why we got into such idiocy in investment management is best illustrated by a story that I tell about the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, 'My God, they're purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?' And he said, 'Mister, I don't sell to fish.'"
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“The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting,” Munger once said. He added he liked the word “assiduity” because “it means sit down on your ass until you do it.”
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Around 2016, an acquaintance asked which person, in a long life, he felt most grateful to.
“My second wife’s first husband,” Munger said instantly. “I had the ungrudging love of this magnificent woman for 60 years simply by being a somewhat less awful husband than he was.”
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“Any time you go to a football game or a function there’s a huge line outside the women’s bathroom. Who doesn’t know that they pee in a different way than the men?” Munger told The Wall Street Journal in 2019. “What kind of idiot would make the men’s bathroom and the women’s bathroom the same size? The answer is, a normal architect!”
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"The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more."
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"If I can be optimistic when I'm nearly dead, surely the rest of you can handle a little inflation."
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"You don’t have a lot of envy, you don’t have a lot of resentment, you don’t overspend your income, you stay cheerful in spite of your troubles, you deal with reliable people and you do what you’re supposed to do. All these simple rules work so well to make your life better.”
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"Without the method of learning, you're like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. It's just not going to work very well."
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"I am personally skeptical of some of the hype that has gone into artificial intelligence. I think old-fashioned intelligence works pretty well."
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“Capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.”
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"Investing is simple, but not easy."