Charlie Munger Quotes

I try to do the right thing.

Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Character is long-standing habit.

Ethics to me is very important.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

Better deserve honor and not have it, than have it and not deserve it.

'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

Act your part with honor.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.