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Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

Charlie Munger

A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: “You don’t seem smart enough to be so good at what you’re doing. Do you have an explanation?”
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Enough Explanation Goodness Smart Talk Yourself
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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Ego Profit Remember Try
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
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Investment Myself Result Yourself
It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.
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Amazing Consistency Easy Learning Principle See
I’m not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I’ve reached that state.
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Argument Myself Opinion Qualification Reach State Thinking
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
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Deserve Safety Way Worth Yourself
Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.
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Avoid Development Habit Mental Race Training
A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
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Business Choice Greatness Price
The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights And you’re probably not going to be smart enough to find thousands in a lifetime. And when you get a few, you really load up. It’s just that simple.
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Hope Life Simplicity Time Win Work Yourself
It’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.
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Experience Life Reading Thinking Yourself
It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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Drive Greedy Jealous World
To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
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Appearance Man Problem Yourself
Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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Brilliant Unknown Wisdom Yourself
Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.
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Company Greatness Investment Yourself
Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can’t derive this by fundamental analysis – you must think biologically.
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Biology Evolution Investment Money Practice Prediction Thinking
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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Attraction Nature Reward Rule Yourself

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

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Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

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