"I first came across poor Charlie's Almanac in my 20s when I was trying to learn everything I could about what made successful businesses tick I found it to be a refreshing rebuttal of conventional Fin..."

"flagging our conversation that night was wide ranging touching on everything from the economics of ski resorts to raising children to the evolution of the news industry witnessing Charlie's prodigious..."

"successive generations of entrepreneurial readers extend his lessons to their own circumstances that is my favorite sentence in this forward written by uh John cison the co-founder of stripe I'm going..."

"an exer from the book I'm going to talk to you about today which is the brand new updated version coming out today of poor Charlie Zac the essential wit in wisdom of Charles tonger edited by Charlie's..."

"trying to get ahead in life so you can order the hard copy book I think I paid like $22 for mine or something like that it's it's a no-brainer in my opinion but also for the very first time ever there..."

"weeks to go through and reread poor Charlie Almanac as you know as you probably know first time I read the book was all the way back in 2019 it was episode 90 of Founders and in the inter room I've re..."

"fascinating John does an excellent job in that interview with Charlie that I hope you listen to uh where they talk about this this is towards the end of the conversation he talks about like okay tell ..."

"things about this book is 80% of it is Charlie in his own words it's probably the largest collection of just monger's own words out of any other book that I've ever found it definitely is the largest ..."

"overview so says the quotes talks and speeches presented here are rooted in the oldfashioned midwestern values from which Charlie has become known so these are some some things that Charlie held dear ..."

"echoes what I what I believe to be the most important sentence in the forward let me go back to that the practical wisdom of poor Charlie alic this ow to curiosity generosity and virtue will similarly..."

"Works money flows as a function of stories okay so back to Charlie it is clear throughout these talks and speeches that Charlie places a premium on life decisions over investment decisions this is rea..."

"of building a great life the mistake that is made that you see in a lot of these biographies is the fact that you have that inner drive right that you probably had since you were really young and yet ..."

"same thing with Charlie Munger he'll repeat a lot of the same ideas in usually in different stories sometimes in the very same story throughout the talks even though the talks are given over multiple ..."

"young Charlie Munger he witnessed the generosity and business Acumen of his grandfather as he helped rescue a small bank that was owned by Charlie's Uncle Tom so Charlie's uncle had R running this Ban..."

"the nation's history and again that line he learned that by supporting each other really that support came from a single formidable individual and you can clearly see the way that Charlie lived his li..."

"son Teddy was terminally ill with leukemia I think he was 9 years old if I'm not mistaken in that era before bone marrow transplants there was no hope a friend remembers that Charlie would visit his d..."

"starts doing a property development project for the first time this actually worked out really well so he had a partner on the steale the partners earned a profit of $300,000 on a $100,000 investment ..."

"meet Warren Buffett Warren is going to be 29 years old at this time and Charlie is 35 years old this is one of my favorite things to just do and think sit and think because you to you and I Warren Buf..."

"investment capital in Omaha this is hilarious I think it was in the book snowball Warren was pitching this guy named Dr Davis and his wife and he was explaining his investment philosophy and at the en..."

"business than what Warren was doing Warren's logic helped Charlie decide to quit law practice at the earliest point he could afford to do so that's an important line the earliest point that he could a..."

"economic forces on Earth pay attention to that part of the conversation at the end that comes by it's probably like a minute long but I sat there and rewound it a few times and trust is one of the gre..."

"the firm's Capital why instead he directed that his share go to the estate of his young partner Fred wer who died of cancer and left behind a wife and children Charlie thought that she and the childre..."

"you're trying to teach the great Concepts that work it helps to tie them into the lives and personalities of the people who develop them I think you learn economics better if you make Adam Smith your ..."

"incredible so I think that's another again he's giving this advice to other people saying hey you should really read biographies I'm a biography not myself and it's clear when you when you see his lib..."

"and so Charlie's famous for saying that he succeeded because he has a long attention span which he definitely does but he also has this insane ability to focus and so they're again they're describing ..."

"jump into the 11 different talks this is really an overview I made a list of five things that Charlie repeats and uses over and over again so the first thing is that he's going to tell you you need it..."

"taken any course anywhere in chemistry economics psychology or business the third thing good ideas are rare bet heavily when you find one I think this is starting to get through to more people I think..."