Charlie Munger Quotes

I'm primarily just an investor.

Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.

Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing .

At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.

And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job.

I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

Traditionally, we think that people with ideas are innovators - that Silicon Valley is the world of ideas. But within the hedge-fund world, they believe that they are men of ideas - that the trade is unto itself one of ideas.

I like to spend money on investments.

The investing world is a little bit more multidimensional than poker.

Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

I understand that finance can be very complex.

I'm a business person at heart.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!

My adversary is the world of finance.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.

I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.