Charlie Munger Quotes

Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.

Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

It is not true that people of high principle are ill-suited for politics.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

I try to do the right things. I was always raised that if you do the right thing and obey the law, you won't have problems.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.

I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

The market has no morality

I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

We have to raise the bar on corporate governance. Shareholders want ethical behavior and honesty.