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abril 19, 2021

In a world of distraction, the ability to go deep brings a huge competitive advantage. And how did it happen? If the fishing is really lousy where you are, you should probably look for another place to fish. The odd thing about it is that people are kind of born deferred gratifiers or not. If you go down to the courts in Los Angeles where people used to have to stand in line or have a service provider stand in line on behalf of the lawyers, there’s nobody there. And the second part is, you’ve mentioned how important being rational is throughout your life. (laughter). I don’t think anybody knows how those will work. I don’t play in a game where the other people are wise and I’m stupid. So I think there’s a lot of wretched excess in it but it reflects an underlying sound development which is this huge growth of software changing the technology of the world. But you can’t look everywhere at once any more than you can run a marathon in twelve different states at once. If you ask me, I think it’s slightly more likely to work than not work. I think we will gradually work things out in spite of this agent group of Directors. Or (inaudible) on the other side. Michelle was the one that ran the foreclosure notice business who made all the money. I was on the safety committee at U.S. Air when that happened and nobody could figure it out for months. Charlie Munger: Full Transcript of Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2018 February 19, 2018 / Richard Lewis / 13 Comments Last week I had the great pleasure of hearing Charlie Munger speak at the Daily Journal Annual Meeting for the third time. Charlie Munger: Well, I don’t think I’ve got any wonderful comments to make about industrial investments. At today’s meeting, board chairman Charlie Munger introduced the board and other key management of Daily Journal and spoke for a few minutes about the company. He needed an army when he first took over and nobody would help him. And whenever they’re successful, they just raise a fund that’s twice as big as the last one and throw more money at more deals. Charlie Munger: Full Transcript of Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2017 February 17, 2017 / Richard Lewis / 15 Comments This week I had the great pleasure of hearing Charlie Munger speak at the Daily Journal Annual Meeting for the second time. It works better to invert the problem. You won’t have any trouble thinking of examples. If anybody has a proxy delivered, ignore it, because we got enough proxies anyway. With computers and artificial intelligence rapidly getting better at investing than humans, what should analysts, portfolio managers, and the investment management industry do to remain competitive? And of course, I don’t know how to create that everywhere. I don’t think our leading tech companies are at all sure to fail. And I just don’t believe in it. Of course, I don’t know how to create that everywhere. They’re not people who decided to do murders and maimings to make money. I think a lot of these companies are very valuable, though they may be selling at too high prices. If you went to venture capital, the most popular investment is software. In a world where that’s the way your mind tricks you – of course, if you have some prophylactic measures where you’re more cautious about your views – think about how we’d all love to have a bunch of children where we’re a little more cautious about their views. And regarding energy, of course we’re going to have to get more directly from the sun and so forth. I hate things that are intrinsically anti-social. That is a very difficult business. And China ought to get along with the United States. It’s very counterintuitive for an individual to feel like a victim even if he is. And the wretched excess you see in the system and…I can remember one of the earlier crazy movements that caused one of our earlier recessions. In most places, if you actually look at them, they have some near-misses. We now have four, five, six, or seven people down in Australia and we work for the state of South Australia and Victoria at the present time, which is Melbourne. I have investments in them and you don’t. And if you don’t have both points of view, your reality recognition is lousy. I may get occasional variation in that but basically I just don’t do it. Charlie: Well I think the reason it’s growing is that for most people it does work better. So it’s very, very hard to be rational and stay sane. Question: I have two questions. But I’m right and they’re all wrong. This is the most amazing place. I have wonderful partners and friends. Question: Daily Journal and Berkshire own a lot of the very large banks. Those who lived within their income, worked at being sensible, and when they saw an opportunity grabbed it very fiercely, and so forth. So I do think that my generation had the best of all this technical change. Daily Journal Corporation Annual Meeting Notes and/or Transcript, 2013-2018. And I think, of course you want to be reexamining what you previously thought, particularly when disconfirming evidence comes through. Now every once in a while, I take something on or drift into something really difficult. Can you walk us through what steps we can take to become more rational? Edited transcript of Charlie Munger at The Daily Journal DJCO 2018 annual meeting – for information purposes only – may contain errors – also at ValueWalk.com CC 4.0 February 20th 2018 We’re waiting for, some of our directors who are in the rest room. The problem with it, of course, is how much material do you want a bunch of crazy humans to have? BYD’s vehicle sales went down because the Chinese reduce the incentives they were giving to the buyers of electric cars. But it’s all done where you shareholders will need a lot of patience. They’re full of lawyers and consultants – the RFP process. You yourself mentioned that some of your family members are in private equity. If you could learn some of our tricks, you can get more success out of life than you deserve. And so I think that’s my…I don’t think Japan’s stasis was Japan’s fault. And so I really admire the way the Japanese have handled their adversity. Peter kind of likes it. It’s something I’ve studied after you’ve mentioned it. I want to know what your thoughts are on this situation and particularly what your thoughts are on Mr. Musk’s behavior. One for district attorney. Question 35: I have two questions. It sounds silly, but it’s so obvious. So I think the United States has a lot to learn from Asians. For example, there used to be three main underwriters ensuing all the taxicabs in Sourthern California. You know, it’s like saying we’ll all be…Riches in a modern civilization are a relative thing. It’s like Kipling’s: If you can keep your head when all round you are losing theirs, it’s a big advantage. There were a million good things that happened. We have a whole industry that tries to make the payment things opaque so they can take advantage of people. By the way, if there was no global warming problem, I’d be in favor of substituting getting power directly from the sun for fossil fuels starting today. It’s a very complicated subject. It was done by teams of mules who were guided by contractors who ran these mule teams and their big plows that they use. And now everybody is trying to be enormously large and to grow enormously and hire more and more people and collect more and more fees. Nobody’s listening to them when they shout out, they’re just pounding a lot of nonsense in. (laughter) This is a very commercial crowd. The little-known company’s annual shareholder meeting has turned into a mini-Berkshire Hathaway AGM for the super nerds out there, because its Chairman is the brilliant and blunt Charlie Munger, who also happens to be Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett’s right hand man. Boeing is a great company that had one of the great success rates…great safety records of the world. So do you see 10 years of low interest rates posing a systemic risk to the supply of insurance? We may get a lithium battery that’s actually quite safe and more energetic than those we have now. It’s really hard. Charlie: Yeah, I think the moats of have been breached time after time after time. I think these companies are very valuable…While they may be selling at too high prices. And they range from mineral courts to other types of courts that we sometimes don’t see here. You can’t even die without paying. I really admire what the Chinese people have achieved. I kind of like it. And it’s just such simple tricks. It was very humorous. Sequioa had such a wonderful record because it kept itself small and now everybody is trying to be enormously large and to grow enormously and hire more and more people, and collect more and more fees. It’s weird. Well I think the Japanese have handled 25 years of stasis with my magnificent skill and philosophy. Every great algebraist inverts all the time because the problems are solved easier. If you’re a meteorologist, it really helps if you really know how to avoid something which is the only think that’s going to kill your pilots. It’s even sillier than it is in business. Peter kind of likes it. These days, you can read the transcript of these events or even watch it on YouTube, so there is less of a practical reason to attend the actual event. It took them six months or so to figure it out. Rationality is something you get slowly and it has a variable result. On the other hand, there’s a huge proclivity to gamble. And that, by and large, what we have is about right. There’s no male in my family that ever lived any such age. And we’re trying to be good like that Latino contractor. I understand that the odds offered on the bet matters a lot so I’d be curious to hear in your mind how you weigh the quality of the horse versus the odds offered on the horse. At age 96, Charlie is quite remarkable. This is more like trying to create another Pricewaterhouse. But I think everybody who is adult should save and not be stupidly spending money and defer gratification to get more later and all those good things that we were taught by Benjamin Franklin – three of them so forth. The revenue goes away and the expenses remain and they’re all dying. And my question to you is, what would you recommend to teach children to prepare than to be successful in life? And the second part is, you’ve talked about how important being rational is throughout your life. She tills the fields, she mines the mines”, and so on. The other is being perfectly rational. If either party had been totally in control in a one-party government, we wouldn’t have had the result that we had, which is close to right. It’s that simple. Little of it we can afford. So maybe you should talk to some younger man about your books. I don’t know whether we’re going to get safe little atom plants or something but I think it’s certainly worth thinking about. And they’ve done things that nobody in the economics profession would have recommended on this scale. Something in the rudder was not working, and it caused three crashes. He then took questions from the audience. Charlie Munger: Well, both are important. We actually need some tough incentives in a civilization to make it work. And so we focus on trying to get to the point where everything is delivered. And don’t ask me why it was kind of a miracle. Like the lever, they really help. Charlie: Well I don’t think I can comment about what Berkshire Hathaway might do next at what price. Of course, you have to learn to change your mind when you’re wrong. And if you go into venture capital, the most popular investment is some kind of software. You know the economists of the world thought they knew a lot more than they did. I do think that trying to be rational helped. I don’t want to play a game where the other people have an advantage over me. Find where you have an advantage over other people, and play in that arena. You don’t see any homeless sleeping and defecating in the street either. I don’t think I deserve any great credit for having stumped into a reasonable amount of felicity. Thank you. By the way, I have a lot of things in what I call the “too hard” pile. And every ten years, these nutcases of the right and left get together and throw all the sensible people out, or gerrymandering them out, because they all agree that within their own party the middlers are horrible. I’m not sure that any other ethnic group would have done it. As the owner, I’m not thinking about scraping fees off along the way so it makes me very nervous to have all this fee-driven buying. I like what I do. There’s a sense, which may or may not be true, but there is a sense that in China there’s more moral flexibility in business, less respect for the rule of law, and less transparency than there is in the West. Charlie Munger: My family is not very interested in what I think about their career choices. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Of course, who wants to be a victim instead of a survivor, Peter Kaufman on The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking: Transcript, Charlie Munger: Full Transcript of Caltech Zoom Talk, Dec. 2020, Li Lu: Value Investing in China, Full Transcript, Charlie Munger: Full Transcript of Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2019, Charlie Munger: Full Transcript of Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2021, Charlie Munger: Full Transcript of Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2020, Fireside Chat with Charlie Munger: Full Transcript. How do you still have the motivation? For the people who get ahead because they’re star salesmen or charismatic personalities, I’m not one of those, so I don’t know how to do that. (inaudible) and a few other things? I will now proceed to the formal business of the meeting and then go on to the questions. Wisdom is Munger's; errors are mine. That’s what has happened to me. And it’s a sad thing. You want to fish where the bargains are. That’s just the way it’s going to work. And the rest of the people are indexing. Charlie: Well, I admire Bill Gates, who feels a duty to throw money at stuff that’s unpopular elsewhere, and that might possibly work. They’re all dying. Who doesn’t like to get a lot more than one deserves? And that’s Journal Technologies. She said: “Hail to the goddess of poverty, a wonderful goddess of poverty. Therefore, I (inaudible) to you. Then I was raised by people who thought it was a moral duty to be as rational as you could possibly make yourself. I think that Texas will eventually get to be like California. But I admire…Considering where they were, mired in this Malthusian poverty and also mired in some ignorance, and that leader who said I don’t care if they get as black or white, I want to know if it catches mice. In response to the Great Recession, all the nations in the world have printed money like crazy and have bought all kinds of investment assets. In other words, I don’t have any good solution for you. He said, “I have been a great actor for so long that I no longer know what I truly think on any subject.” If you stop to think about, that’s exactly what’s happened to most of our politicians, except they don’t know it! Of course, he became a Republican. I want to first introduce the people who are here. I think we’re going to have to change the system. And away went his addiction problem. And yet, our educational system giving advanced degrees don’t give these simple tricks. It just kind of happened by accident and I just went along with it because I think it did more good than harm and I kind of enjoy it as long as I don’t have to do it too often. And then I continue doing it just because I’m perverse. Think about different television is when Cronkite is gone and we have all these clowns on the opinion servers lying to us in a very shrewd way. The answer is no, it won’t. And I think it’s wonderful that we’ve gotten along with Canada so well all these years. So my question is whether you would agree with this assessment, and if so, how would you convince your friends to start investing? They love to gamble in stocks. The following letter was sent to email subscribers of the Junto newsletter on March 12, 2021. And of course, we’re all dealing with various people who, through ‘practice evolution‘, have been good at misleading us. Of course, it makes me nervous. I don’t think we’re going to get as much improvement in the future because we’ve got it so much already. Other people, as the hospitals and doctors get under pressure, introduce a lot of waste and folly, and some of the pharmaceutical companies’ behavior is totally outrageous. Question 19: Do large cap technology stocks today reflect the bubble environment of the Nifty Fifty, in that everyone is investing in the same 10 or 15 stocks? Part of the genius of the American system is no one person gets too much power. The Daily Journal was basically a ridiculous enterprise. That is worth knowing because that’s what most of us are going to get. Or they don’t have the incentives to make money by doing it. It’s just a simple trick to think about how it looks from the people above me and how it looks from the people beneath me. If somebody hired me to fix India, I would immediately say: “What could I do if I really wanted to hurt India?” I would figure out all the things that would most easily hurt India and then I’d figure out how to avoid them. I think you have to change the incentives. If some of you haven’t seen it you should go see it from the inside. I mean, I take the high road because it’s less crowded. Charlie: I am made uncomfortable with the idea of extremely low interest rates, or negative interest rates even more extreme, lasting a long time. [Note: The audio of the formal business affairs have been edited out of the transcript]. But it’s better than not having it. Charlie Munger: Well, I don’t know much about crypto technologies except to avoid them. I have this saying that “a problem thoroughly understood is half solved.” It’s hard to understand it well. The meeting was held on February 24, 2021. I don’t think it helped you to have two different languages spoken. It’s a big mistake to pretend to be practically anything because you become what you pretend to be. And of course, I don’t like it. And George Sand was a female writer, but you know, female writers to get ahead in those days sometimes used men’s names. By the way that’s (inaudible) I chose on purpose. If you take every big college in the engineering department, the most popular course is computer science. The company has a market capitalization of about $140 billion. They think it’s good for the patients, what they’re doing. Thank you. If you stop to think about it, they were in a Malthusian trap, and they prevented 500,000 babies from being born. Where does he invest? Question 33: I’m a current undergraduate student. It is very interesting. Where everything takes forever, is very hard to do and so on. If either party had all the power, I don’t think American civilization would’ve work as well as it has with this ebb and flow. How can I hurt these people I’m trying to help?” All these things help you think it through. We will now proceed to the individual items. But I think they were doing the world a favor and I think that what they did was admirable. And I even go further, I think it’s evil. Other people are better at that than I am. There’s been a lot of change and, of course, this has caused a lot of loss to people that own stocks. 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