Who Charlie Munger cites
Lines where Charlie Munger quotes or credits someone, and where others do the same for them. Every line is in their own words, with the page it is on.
Cites
Charles Darwin
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Darwin’s result was due in large measure to his working method, which violated all my rules for misery and particularly emphasized a backward twist in that he always gave priority attention to evidence tending to disconfirm whatever cherished and hard-won theory he already had.
How to Guarantee a Life of Misery (Harvard School commencement address, 1986) · 13 Jun 1986 · The korrent
Credits
Well, we all remember that Darwin paid special attention to disconfirming evidence, particularly to disconfirm something he believed and loved.
2007 USC Law School Commencement Address · 13 May 2007
Cicero
Builds on our reading
Another idea, and by the way, when I talk about this multidisciplinary attitude I’m really following a very key idea of the greatest lawyer of antiquity, Marcus Tullius Cicero.
2007 USC Law School Commencement Address · 13 May 2007
Quotes
Cicero is famous for saying, “A man who doesn’t know what happened before he was born goes through life like a child.”
2007 USC Law School Commencement Address · 13 May 2007
Confucius
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All my life I’ve admired Confucius. I like the idea of filial piety, the idea that there are values that are taught and duties that come naturally and all that should be passed on to the next generation.
2007 USC Law School Commencement Address · 13 May 2007
Builds on our reading
Another idea that I got, and this may remind you of Confucius too, is that wisdom acquisition is a moral duty.
2007 USC Law School Commencement Address · 13 May 2007
Albert Einstein
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Einstein said that his successful theories came from: “Curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self-criticism. And by self-criticism he meant the testing and destruction of his own well-loved ideas.
How to Guarantee a Life of Misery (Harvard School commencement address, 1986) · 13 Jun 1986
Benjamin Franklin
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The correct answer in situations like that was given by Ben Franklin. He said, “If you want to persuade, appeal to interest not to reason.”
2007 USC Law School Commencement Address · 13 May 2007
Carl Jacobi
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The great algebraist, Jacobi, had exactly the same approach as Carson and was known for his constant repetition of one phrase: “Invert, always invert.”
How to Guarantee a Life of Misery (Harvard School commencement address, 1986) · 13 Jun 1986 · The korrent
Epictetus
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And there I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well.
2007 USC Law School Commencement Address · 13 May 2007
John Wooden
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I mean John Wooden, when he was the number one basketball coach in the world. He just said to the bottom five players, “You don’t get to play. You’re sparring partners.”
2007 USC Law School Commencement Address · 13 May 2007
Johnny Carson
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What Carson did was to approach the study of how to create X by turning the question backward, that is, by studying how to create non-X.
How to Guarantee a Life of Misery (Harvard School commencement address, 1986) · 13 Jun 1986 · The korrent
Max Planck
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I frequently tell the story of Max Planck, when he won the Nobel prize and went around Germany giving lectures on quantum mechanics.
2007 USC Law School Commencement Address · 13 May 2007
Warren Buffett
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Without Warren Buffett being a learning machine, a continuous learning machine, the record would have been absolutely impossible.
2007 USC Law School Commencement Address · 13 May 2007
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Naval Ravikant
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Charlie Munger had a line on this. Somebody asked him about making money. He said what the questioner actually was asking was, “How can I become like you, except faster?”
How to Get Rich (every episode) · 28 Dec 2019
Disagrees with our reading
I think mental models are interesting, but I don’t think explicitly in terms of mental-model checklists. I know Charlie Munger does, but that’s just not how I think.
How to Get Rich (every episode) · 28 Dec 2019 · The korrent
Quotes
As Charlie Munger says, if you could be working on incentives, don’t work on anything else.
How to Get Rich (every episode) · 28 Dec 2019
Shane Parrish
Quotes
Charlie Munger, the business partner of Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is famous for his quote “All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.”
Inversion and The Power of Avoiding Stupidity · 28 Oct 2013
Credits
Charlie Munger applies the concept to life in general. He sought to answer the essential question: Where should we devote our limited time to achieve the most success?
Mastering Success: Navigating Within Your Circle of Competence · 1 Dec 2013
Gabriel Weinberg
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Around 2003 I came across Charlie Munger’s 1995 speech, The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, which introduced me to how behavioral economics can be applied in business and investing. More profoundly, though, it opened my mind to the power of seeking out and applying mental models across a wide array of disciplines.
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful · 6 Jul 2016 · The korrent
James Clear
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To quote Charlie Munger, “80 or 90 important models will carry about 90% of the freight in making you a worldly-wise person.
Mental Models: Learn How to Think Better and Gain a Mental Edge · 12 Aug 2017