Charlie Munger Quotes

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.

In fact, I think [Donald Trump] welcomes the fact that he's got people in the room that may not agree with each other on everything, but he prefers to be presented opinions that are varying at the same time and then making an informed decision based on everyone's input before making decisions.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.

All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

I trust voters. Voters decide on whatever basis they think is important to them. I just want them to have a full range of information to make that decision.

I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions in life that are important, the harder it is to manage those decisions.

You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.

We are often in society told to make decisions in one of two ways. We're either told "Use your gut, just go with how you feel about it and let that guide you," or we're told to use reason - some very deliberative methodical process of pros and cons and really thinking it through.

I think what you're going to get from President-elect [ Donald] Trump is all of his folks together - Rex Tillerson, James Mattis, John Kelly, CIA, Homeland Security, everyone that you would want in the room, making decisions about that particular document and treaties like that document as to how we're going move forward.

You cannot manage a decision you haven't made.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.'

All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.

Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.

It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.

I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.

Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions; do they know they don't? I think there's been some back-down on the idea that everything is determined.