Charlie Munger Quotes

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

The Englishman is like the dog in the fable. The dog who cannot bear that another dog should have a few bones although the overfed brute is sitting with a bowl full to the brim.

You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

Envy is human nature.

When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they'd love to have? Tell me that.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

The grain is always greener in foreign fields, and the flocks of our neighbor have richer yields

Allah never gave such as this to any people without that giving rise to mutual envy and hatred.

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people's riches or success.

No one would deny that feeling envy is unpleasant, or that feeling envious sometimes leads us down a path we wish we hadn't taken. Envy is frequently corrosive and destructive.

I've seen material competitiveness destroy relationships in dressing rooms. People end up worrying about what someone else is earning and whether they're missing out.

The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.