Munger, who has died at 99, won fans for a quick wit that cut much of the business world down to size
“If people weren’t so often wrong, we wouldn’t be so rich,” Charlie Munger, the right-hand man of the billionaire stock picker Warren Buffett, once said of rival investors.
It was that humour, paired with decades of investment successes, that endeared Munger to a global business community now in mourning after news of his death at the age of 99 on Tuesday night.
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