Charlie Munger Quotes

I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.

I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

I'm a great believer in our ability to come up with the ideas necessary to solve the big questions. I have less confidence that we'll be able to find a consensus about which ones are right without experiment.

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas.

I always like to think on a problem before reading about it.

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

It's not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

I'm a thinker.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

Part of the job involves thinking about things and eliminating them. You spend a lot of time coming up with ideas that are terrible and hating them and hating yourself.

I like to take information in and let it percolate.

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.