{"id":487,"date":"2017-03-21T22:34:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T22:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2017-10-24T23:17:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:17:49","slug":"65-omaha-snippets-of-a-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/65-omaha-snippets-of-a-billionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"65. Omaha Snippets of A Billionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-488\" src=\"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CM55-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CM55-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CM55.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Charlie-Munger-Seasons-Eugene-Federen\/dp\/1548719293\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1500437731&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=charlie+munger+for+all+seasons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Excellent Book: Charlie Munger For All Seasons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>1. Charlie Munger tries to be a non-billionaire.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI&#8217;m deliberately taking my net worth down,\u201d the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. told The World-Herald. \u201cIf it&#8217;s not below a billion, it soon will be.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>2. Be Charitable, You Can\u2019t Take It With You.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMy thinking is, I&#8217;m not immortal,\u201d said Munger, 89, an Omaha native who lives in the Los Angeles area. \u201cAnd I won&#8217;t need it where I&#8217;m going.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThere&#8217;s nothing as insignificant as an extra $2 billion to an old man.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>3. Have Great Goals<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, Calif., received $32.7 million worth of his stock to help fund its new education and visitors center. Munger said the <strong>Huntington&#8217;s goal is to build the best museum store in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>4. Change Is Inevitable<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u201cSchools are always changing.\u201d Munger said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/money\/ex-billionaire-charlie-munger-on-recent-donations-i-won-t\/article_3f68516d-e2a6-58a9-ad24-0e117fb8e819.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/money\/ex-billionaire-charlie-munger-on-recent-donations-i-won-t\/article_3f68516d-e2a6-58a9-ad24-0e117fb8e819.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent Book: Charlie Munger For All Seasons 1. Charlie Munger tries to be a non-billionaire. \u201cI&#8217;m deliberately taking my net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philanthropy","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charliemungersays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}