Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day—if you live long enough—like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.
Context
A representative exhortation by Munger, compiled in Poor Charlie's Almanack (edited by Peter D. Kaufman), which collects eleven speeches and talks he delivered between 1986 and 2007. Munger's philosophy centers on lifelong incremental learning as the compounding engine of both wisdom and worldly success.