Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?
Charlie MungerI did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
Charlie MungerWithout numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
Charlie MungerIf it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.
Charlie MungerThe cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic system work better, just as, in reverse, a system that can be easily defrauded ruins a civilization. A system that's very hard to defraud, like a cash register, helped the economic performance of a civilization by reducing vice, but very few people within economics talk about it in those terms.
Charlie Munger