Charlie Munger Quotes

Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.

It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past.

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

You have to seek the simplest implementation of a problem solution in order to know when you've reached your limit in that regard. Then it's easy to make tradeoffs, to back off a little, for performance reasons. You can simplify and simplify and simplify yet still find other incredible ways to simplify further.

Simplicity is really hard.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images — as, according to Proust, most ambitious of voluntary prisoners, one can't possess the present but one can possessthe past.

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.

There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband." "He's not dead, Nana." Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.

What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.