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#329 Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)

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#329 Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)

Founders

2023/12/05
Founders

Founders

2023/12/05
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What I learned from reading the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger.  ---- Listen to this incredible conversation between Charlie Munger and John Collison on Invest Like The Best.  ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable ...

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This podcast episode delves into the timeless wisdom of Charlie Munger, drawing from the newly released edition of 'Poor Charlie's Almanack'. The host explores Munger's core philosophies on business, investing, and life, emphasizing the power of multidisciplinary thinking, ethical behavior, and long-term perspective.
00:00
A newly released conversation between Charlie Munger and John Collison.
05:10
Choose a business partner who is smarter and wiser.
12:01
Great business should serve a great life.
26:39
Intense focus and multidisciplinary thinking define Munger.
29:00
Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance.
31:02
Genius has the fewest moving parts.
31:33
Longest and most revised chapter
32:04
Durability is a first-rate virtue
40:32
Invert, always invert.
42:00
Scale creates lollapalooza effects.
45:02
Scale creates compounding unfair advantages
46:32
Social proof gives scale advantages, expanding a company's moat
49:01
Scale has disadvantages in a free market ecosystem
50:03
Scaling down and intensifying can be a powerful advantage
56:07
Recognize a big opportunity early and stay with it.
1:01:40
Stay in the game long enough to get lucky.
1:08:01
Learning from predecessors is a win-win.
1:14:00
Optimism is a moral duty.
1:19:20
Welcome bad news to avoid a cocoon of unreality.
1:22:00
Get the incentives right.
1:52:08
Hiring is the most critical business decision.

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Charlie Munger's Wisdom and New Book Release
00:00
The practical wisdom of Poor Charlie's Almanack, this ode to curiosity, generosity, and virtue will similarly compound at successive generations of entrepreneurial readers extend his lessons to their own circumstances.
02:00
Education is the process whereby the ability to lead a good life is acquired. — Socrates: A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson. (Founders #252)
12:00
Trust is one of the greatest economic forces on earth.
22:00
Charlie is content to trust his own judgment when it runs counter to the wisdom of the herd.
29:00
Animated: Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgement
31:00
Aim for durability. Durability has always been a first rate virtue in Charlie’s eyes.
31:30
Charlie only focuses on great businesses and great businesses have moats.
32:00
Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin. (Founders #183)
33:00
You can flourish in a niche: People who specialize in the business world —and get very good because they specialize— frequently find good economics that they wouldn't get any other way.
42:00
Being so well known has advantages of scale. This is what you might call an informational advantage. It increases social proof.
45:00
Business Breakdowns episode on Coca Cola
46:30
Occasionally scaling down and intensifying gives you a big advantage. (You can find great profit margins this way)
49:00
Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton. (Founders #234)
50:00
Scale and fanaticism combined is very powerful. (Think Sam Walton)
51:00
I also believed then, as I do now after more than fifty years as a money manager, that the surest way to get rich is to play only those games or make those investments where I have an edge. — A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Ed Thorp. (Founders #222)
57:00
The best thing a human being can do is help another human being know more.
1:08:00
Optimism is a moral duty. — Edwin Land
1:14:00
You want to maximize the playing time of your top players.
1:17:00
The most important rule in management is get the incentives right.
1:22:00
Never, ever think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
1:25:00

Transcript

David Senra: There is a very, very special conversation with Charlie Munger that has been released for the very first time today. It is a conversation that Charlie had with John Collison, the co-founder of Stripe. Speaker 3: It is available on the Invest ...