Charlie Munger Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

  Charlie Munger

  Simplicity, Insightful, May

• The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

  Charlie Munger

  Winning, Games, Insightful

• Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

  Charlie Munger

  Objectivity, Focus, Insightful

• The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Growth, Investing

• All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Order, Investing

• You must value the business in order to value the stock.

  Charlie Munger

  Order, Investing, Values

• Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.

  Charlie Munger

  Progress, Size, Wealth

  ""Here's a 10 point plan to invest like Charlie Munger" by John Szramiak". www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2016.

• The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for.

  Charlie Munger

  Investing, Acquire, Values

• We have a passion for keeping things simple.

  Charlie Munger

  Passion, Simple, Simplicity

• I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Proud, Ethics

• Mutual funds charge 2% per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another 3-4 percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals. I think it's disgusting. It's much better to be part of a system that delivers value to the people who buy the product. But if it makes money, we tend to do it in this country.

  Charlie Munger

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Charlie Munger's comments on business and investing topics at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 1, 2004.

• We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at a discount to liquidation value.

  Charlie Munger

  California, Textiles, Mills

  Charlie Munger's comments on Wesco and Berkshire Hathaway at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

• If the value of a company doesn't just scream out at you, it's too close.

  Charlie Munger

  Scream, Company, Ifs

• All sensible investing is value investing

  Charlie Munger

  Investing, Sensible, Values

• [In picking stocks] You really have to know a lot about business. You have to know a lot about competitive advantage. You have to know a lot about the maintainability of competitive advantage. You have to have a mind that quantifies things in terms of value. And you have to be able to compare those values with other values available in the stock market.

  Charlie Munger

  Mind, Able, Advantage

• The number one idea is to view a stock as an ownership of the business and to judge the staying quality of the business in terms of its competitive advantage. Look for more value in terms of discounted future cash-flow than you are paying for. Move only when you have an advantage.

  Charlie Munger

  Moving, Ideas, Numbers

• Black-Scholes is a know-nothing system. If you know nothing about value - only price - then Black-Scholes is a pretty good guess at what a 90-day option might be worth. But the minute you get into longer periods of time, it's crazy to get into Black-Scholes. For example, at Costco we issued stock options with strike prices of $30 and $60, and Black-Scholes valued the $60 ones higher. This is insane.

  Charlie Munger

  Crazy, Black, Insane

• To some extent, stocks are like Rembrandts. They sell based on what they've sold in the past. Bonds are much more rational. No-one thinks a bond's value will soar to the moon.

  Charlie Munger

  Past, Moon, Thinking

  Charlie Munger's comments on stocks and Rembrandts at the 2001 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. April 28, 2001.

• We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Swim, Insightful

• You're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That's value investing.

  Charlie Munger

  Investing, Enough, Gamble

• It is an unfortunate fact that great and foolish excess can come into prices of common stocks in the aggregate. They are valued partly like bonds, based on roughly rational projections of use value in producing future cash. But they are also valued partly like Rembrandt paintings, purchased mostly because their prices have gone up, so far.

  Charlie Munger

  Gone, Excess, Use

• While no real money came down, my family gave me a good education and a marvelous example of how people should behave, and in the end that was more valuable than money. Being surrounded by the right values from the beginning is an immense treasure. Warrenhad that. It even has a financial advantage.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, People, Example

• The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Men, Foolish Man

• We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments and that you wanted to be in good investments, and therefore, you'd just find a few of them that you knew a lot about and concentrate on those seemed to me such an obviously good idea. And indeed, it's proven to be an obviously good idea. Yet 98% of the investing world doesn't follow it. That's been good for us.

  Charlie Munger

  Believe, Ideas, Insightful

• If you buy something because it's undervalued, then you have to think about selling it when it approaches your calculation of its intrinsic value. That's hard. But if you buy a few great companies, then you can sit on your ass. That's a good thing.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Ass, Selling

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