Charlie Munger Quotes

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

I've always had to fight. Throughout my life, it's been a fight to get to where I am now.

Winning is the easiest thing that I ever did in the NBA, but being able to come to the realization of what it means to compete in this league no matter what - win, lose or draw - was the most difficult thing.

Work harder than everyone, be patient, and just know that if you're going to do something on your own, you're gonna have to feel some pain.

We have to have adversity in order for us to really reap the benefits and really just have an appreciation of how hard it is to win in the NBA.

If you give all your effort and all the fight and all the heart you got, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to win, and that's what's tough about sports.

I always believe every team that wins has to go through some things.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

I'd rather be like Odysseus than someone who was handed everything.

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Simply surviving in this business is a feat.