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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Kalyeena Makortoff

Charlie Munger: the aphorism-loving, bitcoin-hating sage behind Warren Buffett

Charlie Munger, right, with Warren Buffett before Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.
Charlie Munger, right, with Warren Buffett before Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2019. Photograph: Nati Harnik/AP

“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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