Top 300 Charlie Munger Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Business Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Quality Quotes

2. “The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Quotes About Money, Making Money Quotes, Investing Quotes, Stock Market Quotes

3. “People calculate too much and think too little.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Investing Quotes

4. “Three rules for a career: Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire. Work only with people you enjoy.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Integrity Quotes, Business Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Career Development Quotes

5. “In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time — none, zero.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Education Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes

6. “You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Inspirational Career Quotes

7. “Spend each day getting a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day – if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Life Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Financial Success Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

8. “Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Leadership Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

9. “No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Discipline Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Risk-Taking Quotes

10. “There are always people who will be better at something than you are. You have to learn to be a follower before you become a leader.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Leadership Quotes, Inspirational Career Quotes, Humility Quotes, Personal Growth Quotes

11. “Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Leadership Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Tuesday Inspirational Quotes

12. “The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Character Quotes

13. “Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets – and can be lost in a heartbeat.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Leadership Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Business Quotes, Inspirational Career Quotes

14. “All intelligent investing is value investing – acquiring more than you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Business Quotes, Financial Success Quotes, Making Money Quotes, Investing Quotes

15. “The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Leadership Quotes, Education Quotes, Impact Quotes, Study Quotes

16. “A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Business Quotes, Quotes About Money, Investing Quotes, Value Investing Principles

17. “Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you’ve won.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Motivational Quotes, Life Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Challenges Quotes

18. “Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Business Quotes, Making Money Quotes, Powerful Quotes

19. “I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Confidence Quotes

20. “Almost all good businesses engage in ‘pain today, gain tomorrow’ activities.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Business Quotes, Investing Quotes

21. “When you borrow a man’s car, always return it with a tank of gas.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Integrity Quotes, Witty Quotes, Gratitude Quotes, Respect Quotes

22. “The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don’t. It’s just that simple.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Business Quotes, Strategy Quotes, Quotes About Money, Investing Quotes

23. “The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Motivational Quotes, Business Quotes, Wealth Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes

24. “It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Wealth Quotes, Quotes About Money, Ambition Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

25. “Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Making Money Quotes, Clever Quotes, Wealth Management and Growth Quotes

26. “I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Business Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

27. “Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Smart Quotes

28. “We have three baskets for investing: yes, no and too tough to understand. ”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Short Quotes, Financial Success Quotes, Investing Quotes

29. “Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Success Quotes, Education Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Achievement Quotes

30. “Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you’re really going to excel in it.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Education Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Inspirational Career Quotes, Mastery Quotes

31. “Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Financial Success Quotes, Wealth Management and Growth Quotes, Value Investing Principles

32. “What you have to learn is to fold early when the odds are against you, or if you have a big edge, back it heavily because you don’t get a big edge often. Opportunity comes, but it doesn’t come often, so seize it when it does come.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Strategy Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Financial Success Quotes, Making Money Quotes

33. “I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you’re well on your way to success in this world.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Integrity Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes, Reputation Quotes

34. “The difference between a good business and a bad business is that good businesses throw up one easy decision after another. The bad businesses throw up painful decisions time after time.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Business Quotes, Financial Success Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Investing Quotes

35. “To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Creativity Quotes, Problem-Solving Quotes, Smart Quotes, Clever Quotes

36. “Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Focus Quotes, Decision-Making Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Productivity Quotes

37. “It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Success Quotes, Mastery Quotes

38. “Invert, always invert.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Problem-Solving Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

39. “Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Investing Quotes, Innovation Quotes

40. “Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Quotes for Better Decisions, Investing Quotes

41. “If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won’t do it – you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Learning Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Curiosity Quotes

42. “What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Love Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Personal Growth Quotes

43. “It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it – who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet – that they can occasionally find one.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Financial Success Quotes, Investing Quotes, Value Investing Principles

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

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Funny Quotes

45. “I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Patience Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

46. “Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhabit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Financial Success Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes

47. “Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Quotes for Better Decisions

48. “We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Common Sense Quotes

49. “Most people are too fretful; they worry too much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.”

— Charlie Munger

Featured in: Success Quotes, Patience Quotes

50. “Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.”

— Charlie Munger