Charlie Munger Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.

  Charlie Munger

  Brutal, Capitalism

• The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600 years. Today is almost as extreme in the opposite way.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Opposites, Today

• When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Bananas, Shortage

• I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

  Charlie Munger

  Hell, Unfair, Capitalism

• You'll find many markets where bottlers of Pepsi and Coke both make a lot of money and many others where they destroy most of the profitability of the two franchises. That must get down to the peculiarities of individual adjustment to market capitalism. I think you 'd have to know the people involved to fully understand what was happening.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Two, People

• Early Charlie Munger is a horrible career model for the young, because not enough was delivered to civilization in return for what was wrested from capitalism. And other similar career models are even worse.

  Charlie Munger

  Civilization, Careers, Return

  "Investment Practices of Leading Charitable Foundations". Charlie Munger's speech to a meeting of the Foundation Financial Officers Group at Miramar Sheraton Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, October 14, 1998.

• I think the notion...that liquidity is this - of tradable common stock - is a great contributor to capitalism - I think that is mostly twaddle... The liquidity gives us these crazy booms, which have many problems as well as virtues.

  Charlie Munger

  Crazy, Thinking, Giving

  BRK Annual Meeting, Afternoon Session, buffett.cnbc.com. May 1, 2004.

• 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

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