It’s not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings … - Charlie Munger

The quotes, talks, and speeches presented here are rooted in the old-fashioned Midwestern values for which Charlie has become known: lifelong learning, intellectual curiosity, sobriety, avoidance of envy and resentment, reliability, learning from the mistakes of others, perseverance, objectivity, willingness to test one’s own beliefs, and many more. But his advice comes not in the form of stentorian admonishments; instead, Charlie uses humor, inversions (following the directive of the great algebraist [Carl] Jacobi to “invert, always invert”), and paradox to provide sage counsel about life’s toughest challenges.

He was a duck sitting on a pond, and they raised the level of the pond.

it. I don’t mean to say that he’s only had 10 insights. I’m just saying that most of the money came from 10 insights.