Charlie Munger Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Understanding, Age

• The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

  Charlie Munger

  Age, Armor, Bearing Witness

• If you have only a little capital and are young today, there are fewer opportunities than when I was young. Back then, we had just come out of a depression. Capitalism was a bad word. There had been abuses in the 1920s. A joke going around then was the guy who said, 'I bought stock for my old age and it worked - in six months, I feel like an old man!' "It's tougher for you, but that doesn't mean you won't do well - it just may take more time. But what the heck, you may live longer."

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, Opportunity, Men

• I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up with their age cohorts at Goldman. This can't possibly end well in terms of meeting these expectations.

  Charlie Munger

  School, Expectations, Age

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