Tao of Charlie Munger

Words and wisdom from Charlie Munger-Warren Buffett's longtime business partner and the visionary Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway-collected and interpreted with an eye towards investing by Berkshire insider David Clark, author of the bestselling Buffettology series.

Charlie Munger was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924. He left Omaha to study mathematics at the University of Michigan and never lived there again. He trained as a meteorologist at Cal Tech Pasadena while in the Army, entered Harvard Law School without an undergraduate degree and graduated magna cum laude. Today, Munger is one of America's most successful investors, the Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, and Warren Buffett's business partner for almost forty years. Buffett says "Berkshire has been built to Charlie's blueprint. My role has been that of general contractor." Like Buffett, Munger is an intelligent, opinionated business man whose experiences are distilled here to teach professional and amateur investors how to be successful in finance and life.

Like The Tao of Warren Buffett and The Tao of Te Ching, The Tao of Charlie Munger is a compendium of 100 pithy quotes from, "knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant" to, "In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time-none, zero." This collection, culled from interviews, speeches, and questions and answers at the Berkshire Hathaway and Wesco annual meetings, offers insights into Munger's amazing financial success and life philosophies. Described by Business Insider as "sharp in his wit and investing wisdom," Charlie Munger's investment tips, business philosophy, and rules for living are as unique as his life story; intelligent as he clearly is; and as successful as he has been.

About the Author

For over twenty years, David Clark has been considered the world’s leading authority on the subject of Warren Buffett’s investment methods. His international bestselling investment books, co-authored with Mary Buffett—Buffettology, The Buffettology Workbook, The New Buffettology, The Tao of Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements, The Management Secrets of Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett and The Art of Stock Arbitrage, and The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio—have been translated into more than twenty foreign languages and are considered “investment classics” the world over. He holds a B.S. degree in finance and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He is presently writing Berkshire Hathaway: Fortress of Capital, a corporate biography. When not consumed with matters of finance, he is engaged in the second great passion of his life, which is trial law and maintains an active national practice.