From Charlie Munger’s “Poor Charlie’s Almanack”
“Sibling jealousy is clearly very strong and usually greater in children than adults. It is often stronger than jealousy directed at strangers.” (p. 465)
“Envy/jealousy is extreme in myth, religion, and literature wherein, in account after account, it triggers hatred and injury. You were even warned by the Prophet not to covet your neighbor’s donkey” (p.465)
“It is not greed that drives the world, but envy” -Warren Buffet (p. 465)
“When did any of you last engage in any large group discussion of some issue wherein adult envy/jealousy was identified as the cause of someone’s argument?”
“My guess is that people widely and generally sense that labeling some position as driven by envy/jealousy will be regarded as extremely insulting to the position taker, possibly more so when the diagnosis is correct than when it is wrong” (p. 465)