Charlie Munger never had patience for self-pity. The longtime Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman, who died at age 99, lived through losses that would have broken most people—and still refused to see himself as a victim.
Janet Lowe's 2000 biography, "Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger," pulls back the curtain on what shaped that steel-spined philosophy. Munger endured a painful divorce in his early thirties, struggled financially, and then faced the unimaginable: in 1955, his 9-year-old son, Teddy, died of leukemia—an illness that had no treatment at the time. He was devastated but determined not to let despair consume him.
