Charlie Munger Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Discipline, Investing

• With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.

  Charlie Munger

  Numbers, Riding, Human Nature

  "Charlie Munger Speaks - Part 2". Charlie Munger's general comments at the 2000 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.fool.com. May 15, 2000.

• It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

  Charlie Munger

  Past, Management, Human Nature

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