Interview · 2023
Charlie Munger's Final CNBC Interview (2023)
CNBC owns the official stream — we link to the source, not embed it.
This is the end of the line: Charlie Munger’s final on-camera interview, recorded by CNBC’s Becky Quick on November 14, 2023, and aired as part of the network’s memorial special A Life of Wit and Wisdom after he died on November 28 — thirty-four days shy of his 100th birthday. He is unhurried, unsentimental, and completely himself.
Why watch it. It plays as a deliberate summing-up. Munger returns to the themes of a lifetime — the rarity of the Buffett partnership, the handful of businesses he genuinely loved (Costco above all), his distaste for the speculation and short-termism that had overtaken finance, and the multidisciplinary habit of mind he spent decades preaching. He is candid about the mistakes and the missed opportunities, and he refuses to pretend the late innings of a long life are anything other than what they are.
The closing note. What lingers is his optimism. Asked to look back, he keeps coming back to how far the world has come — “I am a lover of the progress of civilization.” Coming from a man who built his reputation on inverting problems and cataloguing human folly, that final verdict is the most quietly moving thing about the conversation.
CNBC is the sole authorized home of this footage. Watch it on the official page linked above; the full written transcript from the memorial special is linked as well.
