Charlie Munger Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

  Charlie Munger

  Reading, Ideas, Habit

• It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

  Charlie Munger

  Quiet, Habit, Trumpets

  "Berkshire Behind the Scenes: Part 3". Berkshire Hathaway Q&A session, www.fool.com. May 30, 2006.

• I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest - sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Boys, Night

  Commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for the USC Gould School of Law, genius.com. 2007.

• I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard.

  Charlie Munger

  Nice, Hate, College

• Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

  Charlie Munger

  Good Man, Racing, Etc

  "Buffett's Wit and Wisdom". Interview with Whitney Tilson, www.fool.com. May 3, 2004.

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