A Quote by Charlie Munger

Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.

Charlie Munger

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Activity Apart Determine Price Progress Size Value Wealth

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Charlie Munger
American - Businessman
Born: January 1, 1924

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

John Green

Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.

Nora Ephron

Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.

Tabitha Suzuma

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle

That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.

Audrey Niffenegger

We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.

Maurice Gibb

The problem with regional trade agreements is you get picked apart by the first country. Then you negotiate with the second country. You get picked apart. And you go with the third one. You get picked apart again.

Wilbur Ross

We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

Virginia Woolf

Every time I do a cover, I completely... pick apart - I take apart the entire song and really reconstruct it. I try and make it my own.

Alexa Ray Joel

Just because your world is falling apart doesn't mean you have to fall apart. When everything seems crazy, you be calm. Don't let the outer chaos you are facing get inside of you.

Bryant H. McGill

We wouldn't ever sit down and pretend that our friendship didn't fall apart back in the late '80s. It wasn't like there was a massive bust-up. We just drifted apart.

Keren Woodward

You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

Stephen Marche

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

Ernst Mach

The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.

John C. Maxwell

Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.