Charlie Munger Quotes

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

For some odd reason, I had an early and extreme multidisciplinary cast of mind. I couldn't stand reaching for a small idea in my own discipline when there was a big idea right over the fence in somebody else's discipline. So I just grabbed in all directions for the big ideas that would really work.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.

I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective.

Just because we have the best hammer, does not mean that every problem is a nail.

When you build your network, keep yourself open to new ideas, concepts, and theories. Some of them may even contradict and challenge long-held points of view. This isn't beneficial only to someone in my profession, but to every line of work.

If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

I've learned to keep my mind open to ideas from any source.

The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.

After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is to be inferred from the consideration of both the visible and invisible causes. The clearance of doubts as to whatever is susceptible of two opinions, and the inference of the whole when only a part is seen is possible of decision only by ministers. Hence the king shall sit at deliberation with persons of wide intellect.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.

Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

It's not the ink, it's the think.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.