Awesome Charlie Munger 
“The best thing a human being can do is help another human being know more” - Charlie Munger
A curated list of awesome resources about Charlie Munger
Goals:
- 📚 One centralized place to find all of Charlie Munger’s resources
- 🌐 Open source collection from across the internet - not my own content
- 🎯 Share Charlie’s wisdom with a larger audience and make it more accessible
- 🤝 Community-driven so anyone can contribute and update this repository
Resources are collected from various online sources. See the Credits section for references.
Charles Thomas Munger (1924-2023) was an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He served as vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. Munger was known for his wit, wisdom, and multidisciplinary approach to thinking. He advocated for the use of mental models from various disciplines to make better decisions and was a voracious reader who believed that continuous learning was essential for success.
“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.” - Charlie Munger
Contents
- Websites
- Books
- Speeches & Transcripts
- Videos
- Podcasts
- Social Media
- Book Recommendations
- Miscellaneous
- Credits
- Disclaimer
- Contribution
- Other Awesome Lists
- License
Websites
List of websites where you can find content related to Charlie Munger
- Farnam Street - Shane Parrish’s blog about decision-making with numerous Charlie Munger articles
- Worldly Partners - Charlie Munger Archive - Comprehensive archive of Charlie Munger’s speeches, writings, and appearances
- Charlie Munger - Wikipedia - Wikipedia article on Charlie Munger
- Berkshire Hathaway - Official website of Berkshire Hathaway
- Daily Journal Corporation - Charlie Munger served as Chairman
- Charlie Munger - Goodreads - Charlie Munger’s Goodreads page
Books
List of books written by or featuring Charlie Munger
Books by Charlie Munger
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T. Munger, Peter E. Kaufman (Editor) - Stripe Press Edition (2023) - The most recent and beautifully designed edition
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T. Munger, Peter E. Kaufman (Editor) - (2005, 21 editions)
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger - Alternative edition (2 editions)
- The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charlie Munger - (2 editions)
- On Success by Charlie Munger - (2009, 3 editions)
- Worldly Wisdom by Charlie Munger
- Charlie Munger’s Wesco Letters 1983 – 2009 by Charlie Munger
- Charlie Munger Blue Chip Stamps Annual Letters 1977 – 1982 by Charlie Munger
Books About Charlie Munger
- Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe - (2000)
- Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin - (2015)
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin - (2007)
Compilations & Resources
- The Comprehensive Charlie Munger PDF - 1000+ page compilation of everything Charlie has written
Speeches & Transcripts
List of Charlie Munger’s most important speeches and their transcripts
- The Psychology of Human Misjudgment - Charlie’s famous speech on cognitive biases (1995)
- A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom - USC Business School speech (1994)
- How to Guarantee a Life of Misery - Harvard-Westlake School speech (1986)
- USC Law School Commencement Address - May 13, 2007
Talks
PDF transcripts and recordings of Charlie Munger’s speeches and lectures are available in
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Key Speeches & Lectures:
- 1977-1982 - Blue Chip Stamps Letters - Charlie Munger’s annual letters as Chairman of Blue Chip Stamps
- 1986 - Harvard-Westlake Commencement Speech - “How to Guarantee a Life of Misery”
- 1994 - USC Business School Lecture - “A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom”
- 1995 - Harvard Speech - “The Psychology of Human Misjudgment”
- 1995-1998 - Worldly Wisdom - Collection of worldly wisdom insights
- 1996 - Stanford Law School - “Worldly Wisdom Revisited”
- 1996 - Practical Thought About Practical Thought - Analysis to build a trillion-dollar business from scratch
- 2000 - Philanthropy Round Table - Talk on Philanthropy
- 2003 - UCSB Speech - “Academic Economics: Strengths and Faults”
- 2005 - Psychology of Human Misjudgment (Revised) - Updated version of the famous speech
- 2007 - USC Law School Commencement - Commencement Address
- 2007 - USC Law School Commencement (Transcript) - Full transcript of the commencement address
- 2011 - A Parody About the Great Recession - Charlie’s humorous take on the financial crisis
- 2014 - Vice Chairman’s Thoughts Past and Future - Reflections on business and investing
- 2017 - University of Michigan Ross - Conversation with Students
Video Versions:
- Charlie Munger - The Psychology of Human Misjudgment - Famous speech on cognitive biases
- Charlie Munger’s Secret 4-Step Investing Checklist - Investment methodology
- Mental Models of Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger - Mental models discussion
Videos
List of talks, lectures, and interviews where you can watch Charlie Munger
YouTube Channels
- YAPSS YouTube Channel - 200+ videos of Charlie discussing various topics
- The Financial Review - Similar content to YAPSS with Charlie Munger clips
- CMQ Investing - Investment-focused content featuring Charlie Munger
- Seeking Wisdom: Value Investing & Worldly Wisdom - Channel focused on value investing and worldly wisdom principles
Daily Journal Annual Meetings
- 2022 Daily Journal Annual Meeting - Charlie Munger speaks at the Daily Journal annual meeting
- 2021 Daily Journal Annual Meeting - Charlie Munger, Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
- 2019 Daily Journal Annual Meeting - Charlie Munger on Mistakes To Avoid In Life
- 2015 Daily Journal Annual Meeting - Charlie Munger speaking at DJCO Meeting
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meetings
- Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meetings Archive - Complete archive of meetings with Warren and Charlie
- 2023 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting - One of Charlie’s final appearances
Podcasts
List of podcasts featuring Charlie Munger or discussing his ideas
- CMQ Investing Podcast - Hosted by the creator of @CharlieMungerQuotes
- The Acquirer’s Podcast - Features episodes on Charlie Munger’s investment philosophy
Social Media
List of official and unofficial social media accounts
- 📸 Charlie Munger Quotes (@charliemungerquotes) - Instagram account with 80,000+ followers and 500+ quotes
- 🐦 Poor Charlie Bot (@PoorCharlieBot) - Automated bot sharing Charlie Munger quotes and wisdom
- 👥 Charlie Munger Almanack Facebook Group - Active Facebook community for Charlie Munger fans
- 🔴 r/CharlieMunger - Reddit community for Charlie Munger discussions and insights
Book Recommendations
List of book recommendations by Charlie Munger, organized by category
Biography & Business
- Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw - The definitive biography of an industrial genius and philanthropist
- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow - From humble beginnings to the world’s richest man
- The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William Thorndike - CEOs who took a radically different approach
- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar - Corporate America and Wall Street culture in the 80s
- Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson - How Bill Gates transformed an industry
- Models of My Life by Herbert A. Simon - Autobiography of Nobel laureate and polymath
- Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner by Connie Bruck - Biography of polarizing media mogul
- Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation by George Roberts - About Henry Singleton, whom Munger called the smartest person he ever met
- Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System by William Poundstone - Claude Shannon’s information theory applied to investing
- Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald - Intimate exposure of Enron’s implosion
- Men and Rubber: The Story of Business by Harvey S. Firestone - Story of the Firestone Tire company
- Les Schwab: Pride in Performance, Keep it Going by Les Schwab - Ultimate competitor and genius in incentive structures
Science & Mathematics
- Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon - “The best book of its kind I have ever read” - Charlie Munger
- Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity by John Gribbin - Bringing order to chaos and complexity
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins - How the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond - Why certain societies advance faster than others
- The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond - What makes humans different from our evolutionary cousins
- Ice Age by John Gribbin - “Best work of science exposition and history that I’ve read in many years!” - Charlie Munger
- A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals by Gino Segrè - How temperature is bound up with life and matter
- Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley - Science writer unfolds the genome
- The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins - Natural selection as an unconscious, automatic, and blind watchmaker
- A Universe out of Nothing by Lawrence Krauss - How everything that exists came to be
- The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century by István Hargittai - Five men from Budapest who changed physics
- Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson - Munger considers this the best Einstein biography
- Darwin’s Blind Spot: Evolution Beyond Natural Selection by Frank Ryan - Cooperation, not just competition, in natural selection
Psychology & Decision Making
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini - A frequent and persistent recommendation from Munger
- The Psychology of Human Misjudgment - Charlie’s own speech (transcript) - Essential reading
- Judgment in Managerial Decision Making by Max Bazerman - Excellent overview of decision-making
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury - Every MBA student reads this
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker - How language works and how we learn it
- No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality by Judith Rich Harris - Why none of the popular explanations solve the mystery of human individuality
- Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove - How to exploit crisis points that challenge every company
- Three Scientists and Their Gods by Robert Wright - Looking for meaning in an age of information
History & Philosophy
- How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman - The first modern nation, first literate society, ideas for democracy and free markets
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes - Why some nations achieve economic success while others don’t
- Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone - “There is nothing in history to match the stories of these men”
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin - One of Munger’s all-time heroes
- Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos by Garrett Hardin - Ecology and economics
- Getting It Done: How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge by Roger Fisher and Alan Sharp - How to lead when you’re not the ‘leader’
Literature & Fiction
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - What Auschwitz taught about life, love, and our search for meaning
- The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne - Classic philosophical essays
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - Detective stories that demonstrate logical thinking
- Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader by Frank Partnoy - “This book will make you sick” - Charlie Munger
- In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy - Munger loves learning about engineering cultures
Miscellaneous
Articles & Essays
- Charlie Munger’s Book Recommendation List - Comprehensive list from Farnam Street
- Charlie Munger on Getting Rich, Wisdom, Focus, Fake Knowledge and More - Farnam Street article
- Charlie Munger and the Pursuit of Worldly Wisdom - Farnam Street article
- Worldly-Wisdom from Charlie Munger - Farnam Street article
Mental Models & Learning
- The Great Mental Models - Book series inspired by Charlie Munger’s approach
- Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions - Farnam Street guide
- Charlie Munger’s Mental Models - Decision-making framework
Communities & Forums
- r/SecurityAnalysis - Reddit community discussing value investing
- r/ValueInvesting - Reddit community for value investors
- r/BerkshireHathaway - Reddit community for Berkshire Hathaway discussions
Research & Academic
- Charlie Munger’s Investment Philosophy - Academic papers on Munger’s approach
- Berkshire Hathaway Annual Reports - Annual shareholder letters
- Daily Journal Annual Reports - Reports from Munger’s other company
Credits
This collection of resources has been compiled from various online sources to preserve and share Charlie Munger’s wisdom. Special thanks to:
- Worldly Partners - Charlie Munger Archive - Comprehensive archive of Charlie Munger’s speeches and writings
- Farnam Street - For excellent articles and transcripts of Charlie Munger’s speeches
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack - The definitive collection of Charlie’s wisdom
- All the authors, publishers, and content creators who have documented Charlie Munger’s insights over the years
Disclaimer
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