Charlie Munger Quotes

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

Every opportunity passed is lost.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my career but the biggest mistake I've made is to turn down work.

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

Since those don’t hit financial reports, the opportunities you had but didn’t accept, most people don’t bother thinking about them very much. At least that is a mistake we don’t make. We rub our own noses in our mistakes in blowing opportunities, as we just did.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

I don't want to be one of those could have, would have, should have kind of guys.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.

Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.

Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.