Inspiration, Heroes & Role Models

Charlie Munger

Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger

Warren Buffett, graduation from Columbia Business School

Buffett Partnership Limited


Our journey has been anything but mundane. Through every step, we've focused on staying true to our values and making space for thoughtful, lasting work. Below are some quotes that serve as our North Star in service of our clients.

"It's a real pleasure to earn the trust of your clients slowly over time by doing what's right."

"Always take the high road, it's less crowded."

"If you're glued together right and honorable, you will succeed."

"We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don't think you should come anywhere near that line. We don't deserve much credit for this. It helps us make more money."

"It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick."

“If all life of life was just buying stocks, putting them in a vault, and waiting for them to go up, it would not be much of a life.”

- Charlie Munger

“The world is overwhelmingly short-term focused. If you go to a quarterly call, they are all trying to figure out how to fill out a sheet to show earnings for the current year, and the management team is interest in feeding them expectations that will be slightly beaten. That is a world that is made to order for anybody just trying to think about what you can do that should work over five, ten, or twenty years. I would love to be born today, to go out with not too much money and hopefully turn it into a lot of money. Charlie would, too, actually. He would find something to do, I guarantee you. It wouldn’t be exactly the same as before, but he would end up with a big, big pile.”

-Warren Buffett