Charlie Munger Quotes

Our investment style has been given a name - focus investing - which implies ten holdings, not one hundred or four hundred. The idea that it is hard to find good investments, so concentrate in a few, seems to me to be an obvious idea. But 98% of the investment world does not think this way. It's been good for us.

Charlie Munger

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• I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Read
  • Forgotten
  • Plato

• Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Little
  • Been
  • Little Bit

• When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Love
  • Want

• I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Body
  • Dress

• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Hearing
  • Suffered
  • Ear

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Day
  • Decision

• How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Band

• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Man
  • Team
  • Ingredient

• I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • World
  • Respect

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Family
  • Why

• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Fashion
  • Been
  • Psychiatrist

• The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• All I ever wanted to do is make music.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Music
  • Wanted
  • Ever

• Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Home
  • Together
  • Boy

• Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Convictions
  • Betray

• I hold that if companies are attacked simply because they are big then an attack on efficiency must be a corollary of that attack. If we penalize efficiency, how can we as a nation compete in the economy of the world at large?

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • World

• I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.

  

  Alexander Ludwig
  • Study

• I definitely think if you're born into the industry, you get easier access, but that's about it. I have never denied that, but after that, only talent and hard work sustains you.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Work

• Our investment style has been given a name - focus investing - which implies ten holdings, not one hundred or four hundred. The idea that it is hard to find good investments, so concentrate in a few, seems to me to be an obvious idea. But 98% of the investment world does not think this way. It's been good for us.

  

  Charlie Munger
  • World
  • Good
  • Focus