Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

From the legendary vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, lessons in investment strategy, philanthropy, and living a rational and ethical life.

A timeless classic that will change how you approach life. There is a billion-dollar education inside this book.

Shane Parrish, founder of Syrus Partners and Farnam Street

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up, Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlies Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of eleven talks delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman between 1986 and 2007 has become a touchstone for a generation of investors and entrepreneurs seeking to absorb the enduring wit and wisdom of one of the great minds of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Edited by Peter D. Kaufman, chairman and CEO of Glenair and longtime friend of Charlie Mungerwhom he calls this generations answer to Benjamin Franklinthis abridged Stripe Press edition of Poor Charlies Almanack features a brand-new foreword by Stripe cofounder John Collison.

Poor Charlies Almanack draws on Mungers encyclopedic knowledge of business, finance, history, philosophy, physics, and ethicsand more besidesto introduce the latticework of mental models that underpin his rational and rigorous approach to life, learning, and decision-making. Delivered with Mungers characteristic sharp wit and rhetorical flair, it is an essential volume for any reader seeking to go to bed a little wiser than when they woke up.