Charlie Munger Quotes

And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job.

I think corporate managers should learn to be better investors because it would make them better managers.

I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate [on the Stock Market]: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

The stock market is not a good arbitrator of success over the long term.

When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.

I like to spend money on investments.

The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make.

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.

I understand that finance can be very complex.

At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

I'm primarily just an investor.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.

I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.

The government can’t guarantee that you should earn profit from your investments.