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

— Charlie Munger · Daily Journal Corporation annual meeting, 2018 · 2018

Verified. Sourced to Daily Journal Corporation annual meeting, 2018 · 2018.

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

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“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.”
Attributed (David Clark, The Tao of Charlie Munger; popularized by CNBC, 2017) · as recalled

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.”
Poor Charlie's Almanack
“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.”
Charlie Munger, to Jason Zweig, "A Fireside Chat With Charlie Munger," The Wall Street Journal (September 2014), at the Daily Journal Corp. annual meeting, Los Angeles · 2014
“Warren and I both know some very successful businessmen who have not one true friend on earth — and rightly so.”
Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, 2002 (morning session) · 2002 · where he said it ↗

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

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