Charlie Munger Quotes

A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.

I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.

On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

As probably is known, I did not want my husband to join politics. He was not keen to join politics. He was very happy as a pilot.

It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.

People don't exist in a vacuum. They're a result of who raised them and who they love and who frustrates them.

I grew up thinking that it's okay to be sad, angry, and express your emotions. I have also banged doors and fought, as I have seen my mom do that when she would fight with my dad. Everything that I've learnt is from them, so I've never struggled to express myself.

You can't be a conqueror in your own home.

I am not really trying to act like my dad.

Most of Charlotte's character is really who she is. A lot of who Ashley is is Charlotte and the same with my dad. It's not like I'm the Joker.

The directness of my mother is clearly in my voice. Her opinion is always a very strong opinion at the dining room table. I think she empowered me to have the same drive.

With three younger brothers, we were always very competitive and combative. But my mother always says I get the drive from her.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

As the family goes, so go the children.

No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

I respect Donald Trump's children. His children are incredibly able and devoted, and I think that says a lot about Donald. I don't agree with nearly anything else he says or does, but I do respect that. And I think that is something that as a mother and a grandmother is very important to me.

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.