Munger on Reading

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time — none, zero.”

“My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”

Widely repeated self-description; exact occasion not pinned to a single primary recording.

“We both insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think. So Warren and I do more reading and thinking and less doing than most people in business.”

“There is no reason to look only for living models. The eminent dead are, in the nature of things, some of the best models around. If a model is all you want, you're really better off not limiting yourself to the living. Some of the very best models have been dead for a long time.”

“I've never taken notes; I never kept notes when I was a student. I would just read what I pleased when I felt like reading it, and I think what I think when I feel like thinking it. That's my system.”