Charlie Munger Quotes

My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

I love to hang out and talk to people on set, especially when I start a new job to get to know them. I like to learn things from the crew so I sit around and ask them technical questions, when I think of them.

I just like working with smart people.

I choose work with the people I like to work with.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.

The problem with communicating without a coordinator is that everyone has to read everyone else's mind.

I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with.

It's nature that you're going to have relationships in your life, and sometimes it's with the people you work with.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.

Candidates need to demonstrate strategic thinking and strong problem solving skills. And, just as importantly, they need to know when and how to ask for help.

I don't like to work with people I don't have any connection with.

American culture is very good at interpersonal relationships and people skills, whereas we're incredibly adept at academics and straightforward 19th-century Victorian education.

I have been lucky with the people that I've worked with - and I have worked with very few people.

Professional people build relationships by doing the work together.

I've been able to work with so many people, so I love asking advice from as many as possible.

Whoever's in the game has got to be ready to play, take the scout serious and understand what we're doing. If you don't know what to do, ask questions.