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“Like Warren, I had a considerable passion to get rich. Not because I wanted Ferraris—I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it. I thought it was undignified to have to send invoices to other people.”
I like the independence part of that. I wanted it too.
Don't quite get the last sentence, especially knowing that Munger was a partner in a law firm and several other businesses that definitely sent out invoices, and like his partner Warren Buffett, he never really retired.
I have no problem sending out invoices. It won't change my life one iota if they are not paid, though. Maybe that's what Charlie meant?