Charlie Munger Quotes

Today's tactical victory does not guarantee tomorrow's strategic success.

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

Whenever you're making an important decision, first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away.

People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.

If you have goals and the stick-with-it-ness to make things happen, people will feel threatened by you, especially if your goals don’t include them. They believe that if you take a piece of pie, then that leaves less pie for them. Seeing you follow your dreams leaves them realizing that they’re not following theirs. In truth, there is unlimited pie for everyone!

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.

Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don't take shortcuts; you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them.

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, . . . stubborn will.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

Long-term success requires faith-faith that your efforts to plan and execute the process will lead to the desired outcome.

Work hard. Think big. Listen well.

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and I think most people don't think that it's something that they could just do, you know, naturally.

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.

Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.... You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life.