No. of Recommendations: 32
The world just became a smaller, less interesting place.
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From my remarks at my own retirement party almost six years ago:
"I have a few heroes – not very many – and most of them are sitting in this tent. One exception is a man named Charlie Munger, whose 94th birthday happens to be today. Charlie is an honest, brilliant man of few words but of superb common sense, honed by a life of reading, thinking, and learning.
"While in his thirties, Charlie founded what quickly became and still remains a very successful Los Angeles law practice, Munger, Tolles and Olson. Twenty years later, while in his early fifties, he left the practice of law. When asked why, he said that he didn’t set out to be rich – he set out to be independent. As usual, Charlie got it exactly right."
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Around 18-20 years ago, I sent him a note, basically a thank-you. I mentioned how I had modeled some of the structure of my own practice after that he'd pioneered at MTO.
A week or so later, I received a scrawl: "You sound like my kind of fellow". (While generally not much of a pack rat, I still have the note)
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"Invert, always invert"
--sutton
grieving a bit
