“It isn't an easy thing to work very hard for many years to build up a significant career, as I had done, and then to destroy that career on purpose.”

“Three rules for a career: Don't sell anything you wouldn't buy yourself; don't work for anyone you don't respect and admire; and work only with people you enjoy.”

A genuine Munger sentiment; this tidy three-rule phrasing is a compiler's rendering, not a verbatim transcript line.

“I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.”

“It's one of the advantages of being very rich: you can behave better than other people.”

In context, about the freedom independence gives to act with integrity — not a boast.

“Warren and I both know some very successful businessmen who have not one true friend on earth — and rightly so.”

He went on: 'And that is no way to live a life.'