Charlie Munger Quotes

I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.

Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.

For lots of people who became rich, they believe they earned their fortune through hard work. They don't think about society and only want to leave their fortune to their children.

We’re the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

You can’t beat this prosperity thing.

My parents had to work hard, and I was always looking for a way to make it big - for their sakes as well as my own.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches-perish the thought; because it's not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work. Riches come if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

I have always believed that most large fortunes are made by men...who tumbled into a lucky opportunity. Hard work and attention to business are necessary, but they rarely result in achieving a large fortune. Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich, he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.

You can have a big hit and not get rich.

Wayne Messam does not have any financial problems and is a classic American Success Story.

Money means a lot of respect. It means a lot of accomplishment and a lot of hard work.

I think when you invest a lot, you earn your rewards.

I was always a hard worker, and that's why I got invited to come to America. My uncle actually said, 'You've to go to America. You work like this in America, you're gonna make a lot more money.'

I used to make $300 a week, struggling to put food on the table, but I have become one of the highest-paid fighters in the world. I feel that's destiny.

It's not about the pennies as such, but what I've been able to create for the family. I have done that better than I could have ever dreamed.

To have been able to buy my parents a house in London is something no one can imagine.

You are not created for poverty.