Charlie Munger Quotes

We can’t all be better than everyone else.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.

I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.

I'm much happier on my own. Being a member of The Corre, for example, I was obviously better than all three of those guys. However, I made the mistake of holding them as equals. No more.

Don't worry about what other people say, you could be doing what they're doing or even better than them.

What I was doing wasn't good enough. It was good enough up until I met someone who was doing it properly - someone who was stronger than me and in better mental and physical condition than I was.

I don't really compare myself to anybody but just try to be the best I can be.

I think there are still better players than me.

What's the point of being better than someone else?

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

If there are people who do it better than you, why do it?

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.

I release any feelings of competition or comparison. I simply do my best and enjoy being me.

Do your best and become as successful as you can because the more powerful you become, the smaller the other person gets, right? So it's like the bigger you are, the better you become, the less power other people have over you. The best thing to do is to always compete with yourself and not to compete with others.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you.

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

What I am trying to say is that they need to learn to rely on themselves and to learn from other people, and when you learn something from other people, then you keep moving onward for yourself.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

I'm not afraid to go up to people and pick their brains and ask for advice. To me, that's how you get better. That's how I've gotten better at everything I've ever done. Don't be too proud to ask for help.

So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?

I've met people and have mentors that have taught me and I'm still trying to get better today.