Mungers
How Charlie Munger’s ‘Reversal Thinking’ Helped Him Become a Billionaire
The late Charlie Munger spent six decades as a partner of Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway. He built much of his own fortune before the two men crossed paths. Ask him how he did it, and he won’t hand you a list of clever tricks. He will tell you to stop thinking forward and start […]
Charlie Munger’s ‘Man with the Hammer’ Warning: 7 Ways This Thinking Error Ruins Smart People’s Decisions
The late Charlie Munger liked to quote an old phrase about tools and problems. In his 1995 Harvard speech on human error of judgment, he put it this way: “To the man with the hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” He wasn’t describing stupidity. He was describing something more dangerous, the kind of narrow […]
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment: Charlie Munger’s 10 Prejudices That Explain Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
The late Charlie Munger, longtime vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, gave his famous speech titled The Psychology of Human Misjudgment at Harvard in 1995. He later expanded it in Poor Charlie’s Almanack into a catalog of 25 cognitive tendencies that cause intelligent people to make terrible decisions. Munger has spent decades studying why brilliant doctors, […]
Charlie Munger’s 10 ‘Healing Worldly Wisdom’ Lessons That Make You Smarter Than Most People
Charlie Munger once said that if he were in charge of a law school, he would create a course called “Remedial Worldly Wisdom” – filled with concise examples, powerful principles, and enough psychology to make the experience more useful. He thought it might be, in his words, “a total circus” in the best possible sense. […]
Charlie Munger’s Discipline Formulas: Why Smart People Still Make Stupid Money Decisions
Intelligence is supposed to protect people from bad decisions. This is one of the most dangerous assumptions in personal finance. Charlie Munger, former vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, has spent decades studying why brilliant people consistently destroy their own ability to create wealth. His conclusion was uncomfortable. Intelligence without discipline creates a more sophisticated version […]
Charlie Munger’s Essential Reading List: 10 Books He Recommended Most
Why Charlie Munger’s Playlist is Important Charlie Munger spent decades as Warren Buffett’s right-hand man at Berkshire Hathaway, but his real superpower had nothing to do with stock picking. It was reading. Munger was one of the most voracious readers in American business history, and he built his entire investment philosophy on what he called […]
Why was Charlie Munger’s net worth so much lower than Warren Buffett’s?
Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett both worked at Buffett & Son, the Omaha grocery store owned by Warren’s grandfather, Ernest P. Buffett. Although they shared the same employer as teenagers, they did not work there at the same time. Charlie Munger worked at the store in the late 1930s. Warren Buffett would work there later, […]
Charlie Munger’s 5 Wealth Lessons People Learn Too Late in Life
The late Charlie Munger, legendary partner of Warren Buffett, built extraordinary wealth through principles that most people discover far too late. His approach was simple but deeply complex to implement. These are not hidden secrets: they are obvious in hindsight, but most people spend decades learning them the hard way. By the time they understand […]
Charlie Munger’s 5 life lessons learn too late in life
Warren Buffett long -standing trading partner, Charlie Munger, died at the end of 2023 at the age of 99, leaving a deep wisdom beyond finance. His ideas on life, success and human nature offer lessons that many men, unfortunately, only discover after decades of expensive errors. Munger’s approach has focused on learning success and failure, […]