Charlie Munger Quotes

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.

Conflicts that in Sweden and Japan would be solved by quiet consultations … through the bureaucracy are fought out through formal litigation in the American court system.

Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.

Avoid litigations. They are expensive and consume loads of time but if you have got a good case and a better chance of winning; then fight it out.

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great - says great things about our judicial system.

When you're thrust into litigation, you obviously have to make sure you're prepared to deal with that.

I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

Scientific issues are litigated far more often than constitutional ones.

The news changes every day. So it's not like being involved in any litigation that goes on for four years, and the trial lasts three months.

Lawsuits take a long time.

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

We sue each other too much and care for each other too little.

My father was a small claims court jester.

Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.

Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

I doubt anything will really come of this lawsuit. First of all, it's a lawsuit. It involves a subpoena. And try to find a Republican who will be willing to be seen serving a black man.

Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.

After going through years of litigation to get royalties due to him, the guy who coined the term 'happily ever after' lived reasonably well for a while.