Charlie Munger Want Quotations

All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there

The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

We like our current shareholders and don't want to entice anyone to become one. It would help current shareholders to hear our CEOs [of the Berkshireoperating subsidiaries], but we promised them they could spend 100% of their time on their business. We place no impediments on them running their businesses. Many have expressed to me how happy they are that they don't have to spend 25% of time on activities they didn't like.

I don't invest in what I don't understand. And I don't want to understand Facebook.

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like.

There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.

I don't want to understand Facebook.

Why would you want to invest with a guy whose thought process says, "If a second layer of fees is good, then let's add a third layer.

If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don't have to know any higher math....

We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.

We only want what success we can get despite encouraging others to share our general views about reality.

This is an amazingly sound place. We are more disaster-resistant than most other places. We haven't pushed it as hard as other people would have pushed it. I don't want to go back to Go. I've been to Go. A lot of our shareholders have a majority of their net worth in Berkshire, and they don't want to go back to Go either.

If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals.

There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.

If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it.