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John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History Jul 28, 2026 · 1 mention

The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen Feb 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:27 Shane Parrish When I was talking with Charlie Munger about predicting, and he basically said, it's a fool's errand.

Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want Jan 20, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 54:54 Morgan Housel There's a Charlie Munger quote where one of his very wealthy friends comes and says, Charlie, if I leave all of my money to my kids, 4 times in the scene

The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking | Peter D. Kaufman [Outliers] Jan 13, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:44 Shane Parrish Peter's also the editor of Poor Charlie's Almanac, the definitive collection of Charlie Munger's wisdom. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:51 Shane Parrish The books are too numerous and too thick, and you don't have time to master everything the way Charlie Munger did in his 99 years.
  • ▶ 14:25 Shane Parrish And when Peter asks how many people are truly constant, he names two from his own experience, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:21 Shane Parrish This reminds me of something that Charlie Munger said, to get what you want, you have to deserve what you want.

How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear Jan 1, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:29 James Clear And I don't want to be a VC or an investment advisor or, you know, like somebody who's trying to be the next Buffett or Munger or whatever.

The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success Dec 30, 2025 · 1 mention

How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland Dec 9, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 46:53 Shane Parrish And when I go boom, did they quite well, they didn't really get burned, but I was talking to Munger about this over dinner one day 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:25:11 Shane Parrish Buffett and Munger had a good way to sum this up, which is never ask your barber if you need a haircut, yeah.

Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti Oct 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:38 Shane Parrish I remember Buffett and Munger getting tailed with something with the SEC in the early seventies, I think it was.

Jim Clayton: Turning Competitors’ Mistakes Into $1.7B [Outliers] Oct 21, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 33:19 Shane Parrish This reminds me of a passage from Poor Charlie's Almanac that I want to read to you, and this is Charlie Munger talking. 3 times in the scene

Building Great Businesses | Tracy Britt Cool Oct 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:11 Shane Parrish You mentioned blocking and tackling, and I think there's a point to be made there, perhaps, about how we get trapped in complexity and making things overly complicated, and sometimes it just comes down to remembering the basics, as Munger

Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers] Oct 7, 2025 · 1 mention

Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers] Sep 9, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 25:52 Shane Parrish Charlie Munger loved this story, and, you know, his comment on this was, never, ever think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
  • ▶ 31:07 Shane Parrish Charlie Munger put it best when he said, in my whole life, I have known no wise person who didn't read all the time.
  • ▶ 46:53 Shane Parrish Charlie Munger loved this story.

Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers] Aug 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:43 Shane Parrish One of them was a comment by Charlie Munger, which, uh, he said, Saul Price used to say success in business came from deciding which business you could intelligently do without.

Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport Aug 5, 2025 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 2:26 Shane Parrish We also explore the counterintuitive lessons he's learned from Charlie Munger and Peter Kaufman.
  • ▶ 1:28:12 Shane Parrish You mentioned chauffeur knowledge, which is, uh, such a tell that you're a Charlie Munger, uh, devotee. 10 times in the scene

Les Schwab: Why Real Ownership Outperforms Experience, Capital, and Credentials [Outliers] Jul 15, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Shane Parrish Charlie Munger once asked me, how can someone give away 50% of profits and make billions more than if he'd kept it all? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:06 Shane Parrish As Charlie Munger said, the best way to get more work is to do the work right in front of you, and do it well.
  • ▶ 8:01 Shane Parrish One of my favorite mongerisms is show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome.
  • ▶ 48:57 Shane Parrish Charlie Munger studied Les Schwab's success and reached a simple conclusion. 2 times in the scene

Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year Jul 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:19:26 Shane Parrish One of the only pieces of advice Charlie Munger gave me about parenting over dinner once was the parents that try to artificially impose a different lifestyle on their kids than they are living. 2 times in the scene

Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers] Jul 1, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:03 Shane Parrish What I find fascinating, Jimmy discovered what Buffett and Munger had been practicing for years, that capital allocation is the CEO's most important job, but he learned it the hard way through near total failure.

Bill Belichick: 8x Super Bowl Champion on Winning, Leadership, and Discipline May 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:10 Shane Parrish One of the things you, you said in the book is you, you cannot win until you keep from losing, which reminds me of Inversion from Charlie Munger.

Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World May 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:10:04 Elad Gil Because the thing that people continue to underappreciate is kind of like the old Charlie Mungerism that, um, the thing he continues to underappreciate is the power of incentives, right?

Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers] May 6, 2025 · 2 mentions

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders Apr 29, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 32:34 Shane Parrish Um, and because they can't maintain the simplicity, they can't maintain the focus, they can't do the secret sauce, which obviously has a lot to do with, with Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:10:07 Shane Parrish Like everybody repeats what Buffett says, but the people who actually invest for a living or know Warren or Charlie or spend time with them,

Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers] Apr 22, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:17 Shane Parrish That's a quote by Charlie Munger on today's Outlier.
  • ▶ 14:41 Shane Parrish And Charlie Munger talks about this idea surfing in Poor Charlie's Almanac, and here's what he says.
  • ▶ 25:17 Shane Parrish When I asked Charlie Munger to describe Singleton over dinner one night, he looked at me and said one word, rational. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:30 Shane Parrish Charlie Munger said of Singleton's investment approach, like Warren and I, he was comfortable with the concentration and bought only a few things that he understood well.

James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers] Mar 25, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 44:51 Shane Parrish Charlie Munger calls it commitment and consistency bias.
  • ▶ 1:05:51 Shane Parrish At dinner one night, I was talking with Charlie Munger, and I asked him for the unconventional sort of things that people don't appreciate as much about Berkshire Hathaway's success as he might think that they should.

Estée Lauder: A Success Story Mar 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:15 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger said it was a crime that business schools didn't study Henry Singleton.
  • ▶ 58:32 Shane Parrish Her principles are deceptively simple, but what was Charlie Munger's quote, right?

Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers] Feb 25, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 6:19 Shane Parrish They understood something that modern investors like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger would later teach so simply. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:49 Shane Parrish The blueprint Mellon created would later be refined by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger with Berkshire Hathaway.
  • ▶ 53:08 Shane Parrish It reminds me of Charlie Munger's observation about people who go to bed every night a little wiser than when they grow up. 2 times in the scene

David Heacock: Building Filterbuy Feb 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:53:22 David Heacock Um, you know, Charlie Munger, probably my greatest virtual mentor, had a saying that, you know, the, the, the, um, thing that drives the world isn't greed, it's envy.

Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers] Feb 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read Dec 10, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 22:13 Shane Parrish but, so we created this niche idea, and it came from talking with Charlie Munger. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:24 Charlie Hoehn Um, my, uh, one of my good friends' moms was the CEO of, uh, John's Man Bill, and so she would hang out with Warren Buffett and stuff, and I was, like, begging her, please tell Charlie Moker when he was live to publish a book on mental… 6 times in the scene

Adam Karr: The Investing Blueprint Nov 12, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 4:47 Adam Carr And we know that Munger was also, you know, a key part of like that conversation and framing and helping Warren think about what he focused on.
  • ▶ 12:29 Adam Carr Like, this is, um, invoking Charlie. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:05:23 Shane Parrish Are there particular lessons from Munger and Buffett that you try to remember every day that have made more of an impact for you?

John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire Oct 1, 2024 · 2 mentions

Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home Jun 11, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 2:03:40 Brent Beshore And by the way, having spent time with both Buffett and Munger, they would say the same thing. 7 times in the scene

Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich May 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:48 Morgan Housel I think that's all that matters over time is that, you know, and even Buffett and Munger,

Chris Davis: Three Generations of Wealth Mar 5, 2024 · 51 mentions

  • ▶ 55:44 Christopher Davis Well, you know, it, there was a beautiful, uh, last, uh, interview with Charlie, uh, that Becky Quick did, and I, I give her enormous credit. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:18:35 Christopher Davis And one that Charlie was always willing to point out.
  • ▶ 1:21:47 Shane Parrish You mentioned Munger a few times. 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:30:09 Christopher Davis Uh, you know, in my personal life, I went through an unexpected divorce and I was having dinner with Charlie and he was saying, you know, I generally am not a fan of divorce because people don't tend to do better. 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:40:20 Christopher Davis He felt, you know, interestingly, Charlie always talked about dressing conventionally, you know, wearing, he said he's so eccentric in other ways that by wearing a suit and tie, people assume that he's more conventional than he is, and… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:42:04 Christopher Davis If you were to tell me that that's not true or it's apocryphal, I'd believe you, but it's such a good story, and it does get at this very deep truth, and you said it certainly was a Charlie truth about inversion. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:54:11 Christopher Davis And so, I mean, I, I always had a glass of wine with Charlie and, and I, I enjoyed that. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:55:35 Christopher Davis Well, I like what, you know, Charlie said that, that money doesn't ruin kids, you know, parents do, and I would add genetics can too. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:11:44 Christopher Davis I mean, that's one, again, where Charlie says, if you want your kids to be as ambitious and as hardworking, it's unlikely. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:20:53 Christopher Davis And, and I feel like that about, you know, health, about depression, about contentment, about sleep, you know, I feel like I'd like to think, you know, Charlie was so powerful about handling suffering and his stoicism, you know, this… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:36:39 Christopher Davis Well, I mean, it, it, for me, that is one where Charlie shaped that from the beginning.

Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best Jan 23, 2024 · 47 mentions

  • ▶ 2:02 Shane Parrish In this episode, we talk about the lessons he's learned from Charlie Munger, how to get the universe
  • ▶ 2:51 Shane Parrish I think we should start with Munger. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:35 Tom Gaynor And, and Peter Kaufman, for instance, who was a great friend of Munger's and was the editor of poor Charlie's Almanac.
  • ▶ 11:56 Tom Gaynor And, and funny thing is, so your kids, and I don't know how old your kids are, but your kid who doesn't have 99 years of Munger's worldly wisdom accumulated, they can go either way with that, depending on the context of the rest of the…
  • ▶ 12:50 Tom Gaynor So it's a, it's a, it's a long story in many ways, and again, it ties back to Munger and Buffett.
  • ▶ 26:26 Tom Gaynor To Munger, um, and, and Buffett as well. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:51 Tom Gaynor That is exactly right, and here's another case where sort of, um, luck, serendipity process all combined to create, as Munger would say, a Lollapalooza outcome. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:38 Tom Gaynor Again, one of the reasons we're talking about Charlie Munger today, 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:22 Tom Gaynor And again, Munger, the lattice work of models and all these multidisciplinary things such that anything you come across, you should have some mental construct in your mind by which to judge the next thing you come across.
  • ▶ 58:44 Tom Gaynor So for instance, Munger, I believe one of the times he says, you want, you want two great weeks in your life? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:04:41 Tom Gaynor Created this wonderful compound effect because again, as Munger said, any number, no matter how big multiplied by zero is zero, but it is so tempting to be at the moment where you're, you're making bigger and bigger numbers and you're… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:08:38 Shane Parrish It is harder when you're alone, and you know, if you're a reverent like Munger, it, you know, seemingly seems easy to him. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:12:47 Tom Gaynor Uh, like Charlie, I, I too am a social person.
  • ▶ 1:32:05 Tom Gaynor The Munger tribute. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:52:45 Shane Parrish Munger calls EBITDA 4 times in the scene

Todd Herman: Unleashing Your Secret Identity Nov 28, 2023 · 9 mentions

TKP Insights: Philosophy Jul 4, 2023 · 5 mentions

Jason Karp: Live A Healthier Life Apr 4, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:52 Jason Karp I think there was probably a second book of quotations from the eighties that actually had some Munger quotes in it. 2 times in the scene

Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings Jul 26, 2022 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 23:56 Andrew Wilkinson So I had a really, I've gotten really fortunate to get to know Charlie Munger over the last couple of years. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 58:13 Andrew Wilkinson Charlie Munger has been fascinating to watch, um, from a distance with the way he runs Daily Journal, where he doesn't overdo all of the, um, you know, crufty public company stuff.
  • ▶ 1:09:37 Andrew Wilkinson And I've had enough experiences with that stuff that, you know, Munger has that great saying when you

#130 Diana Chapman: Trusting Your Instincts Feb 8, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:31:37 Shane Parrish One of my favorite quotes from Charlie Munger is that he says, I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do. 2 times in the scene

#129 Marc Andreessen: Interview with an Icon Jan 25, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 59:44 Marc Andreessen Yeah, Charlie Munger has this great thing I really like, which he says, look, if, if you often in the world, and this is a great example, you often have a system, and the system has incentives, and the incentives result in terrible… 2 times in the scene

#106 Josh Kaufman: Maximizing Our Locus of Control Mar 9, 2021 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:01 Josh Kaufman Going back to our conversation of Munger, he has a lot of very good quotes about, you know, the, the, the best way to do well is to avoid making avoidable mistakes.
  • ▶ 6:58 Shane Parrish Like where did, where did Munger come into this? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:19 Shane Parrish I think one of the things that Munger also said was, uh, you know, there's very few models that carry the bulk of the weight of the thinking and the outcomes.
  • ▶ 33:56 Josh Kaufman Um, I think this is, you know, going, going back to our conversation of Munger, he has a lot of very good quotes about, you know, the, the, the best way to, to do well is to avoid making avoidable mistakes.
  • ▶ 1:09:33 Josh Kaufman Um, and, and, and so I, I think of, of the, the Munger quote, somebody else is always going to have more money than you.

#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key Jan 5, 2021 · 4 mentions

#97 Roger Martin: Forward Thinking Nov 24, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:31 Shane Parrish I come from a world of like Charlie Munger and sort of like interdisciplinary thinking.
  • ▶ 40:42 Shane Parrish One of the things I ascribe that to is that Buffett and Munger controlled about 40% of its shares until recently so they could sit on cash and not do anything and not worry about an activist investor or, you know, and what they were really…

#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation Jul 21, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:30 Shane Parrish The value of execution over ideas, reading, mental models, Charlie Munger, making decisions, living a meaningful life, and the biggest mistake he's ever made.
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