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'Like Warren, I had a considerable passion to get rich, not because I wanted Ferraris ' I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it.'-Munger'
Around 5.7 years ago - coincidentally, 1/10 of my life to that date - I retired from the practice of medicine.
We set up a tent, hired a caterer, a string quartet and a bartender, and invited maybe 50=60 of my closest/most admired associates (only about a quarter of whom were named "Doctor")
I took a moment while they ate to make some remarks on 25+ years of an overly hectic community oncology practice.
One quote from those remarks:
"I have a few heroes ' not very many ' and most of them are sitting in this tent. One exception is a man named Charlie Munger, whose 94th birthday happens to be today. Charlie is an honest, brilliant man of few words but of superb common sense, honed by a life of reading, thinking, and learning.
While in his thirties, Charlie founded what quickly became and still remains a very successful Los Angeles law practice, Munger, Tolles and Olson. Twenty years later, while in his early fifties, he left the practice of law. When asked why, he said that he didn't set out to be rich ' he set out to be independent. As usual, Charlie got it exactly right."
--sutton
who would do the same timing all over again
