Move only when you have an advantage. It’s very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.
CHARLIE MUNGERIt’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
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I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
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I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses’ asses. I know I’ll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn.
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A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
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Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
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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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Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.
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The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
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Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
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It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
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I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.
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It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
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Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?
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