Charlie Munger Quotes

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. They are paid in proportion to the supply and demand of them

The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?" Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it right back to where it started. Why would he ever do such a thing? At last he said,"Perhaps because he doubted himself.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

Thinking is the highest form of leverage.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.

The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.

Information work is thinking work.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.