Charlie Munger Quotes

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

Charlie Munger

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Attention
  • Study
  • Waiting

• My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.

  

  Bai Ling
  • You
  • Chinese
  • Follow

• The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Life
  • Character
  • Brother

• Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Kind
  • Proud
  • Film

• You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Focus

• I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Speak
  • Hebrew
  • Persian

• A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Economy
  • Nation
  • Rights

• Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Good
  • Why
  • Action

• My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Me
  • Talent
  • Taught

• Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • May
  • City
  • Kind

• If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Real
  • Change

• I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.

  

  Natasha Poly
  • Important
  • Care
  • Makeup

• I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Wish
  • Privacy
  • I Wish

• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Live
  • Pretty

• Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Hair
  • Head
  • Wig

• Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May

• Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Up
  • Wall
  • Times

• Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • Power
  • Compassion
  • Praying

• Synergies are something that the CEO basically has to force to happen, because organizations are, generally, like bodies in motion that tend to stay in motion. It's very hard to get big organizations to change. And it takes really a very powerful mandate to force things to happen.

  

  John C. Malone
  • Power
  • Change
  • Powerful

• We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon, as we approached, was quite disheartening.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Nature

• Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

  

  Charlie Munger
  • Power
  • Political
  • Wall