Charlie Munger Quotes

Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of money. What is also needed is a temple of shame squared for things you didn't do that would have made you rich. Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn't remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we’re able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)

Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.

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

Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.'

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

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

A lot of times I made the wrong choices and you learn from this, what is good, what's bad.

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

I was just getting away from my game plan. What I was doing really, I wasn't using it to my advantage in '18. And that was it.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don't know, but I didn't. So I am what I am and I'm pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.