Charlie Munger Quotes

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

Predicting the future is very difficult. As a historian I have trouble trying to predict the past.

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

People are unpredictable at the end of the day.

It is impossible to know what people will like. No market research, formulas will help, it's best to stop guessing.

It's very hard to predict what people are thinking.

... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

You never can expect what people's reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do.

You never know how people are going to respond.

The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.

You never know what's going to be considered a hit, or what people are going to like.

Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act, or how they'll handle an extreme situation. But to be honest, no one knows. Not reallyBecause none of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.

Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry.