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It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

Charlie Munger

The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It’s just that simple.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Investment Price Quality Simplicity Yourself
If you get into the mental habit of relating what you’re reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.
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Basic Habit Mental Reading Structure Wisdom
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
Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
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Cost Decision Intelligence Opportunity People
If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you’re enumerate, you’re going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don’t have to know any higher math.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Business Goodness Mathematics Science Understand Yourself
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
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Argument Best Challenge Force Ideas Love
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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Easy Family Life Rich Time Yourself
All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
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Death Funny Myself Place
I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.
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Believe Best Master Myself People Smart
There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.
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Money Myself Situation Worst
We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
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Business Competition Enough Life Myself Ruin
You’re looking for a mispriced gamble. That’s what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That’s value investing.
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Enough Gamble Investment Price Value
There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.
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Bound Method Regression
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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Ego Profit Remember Try
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 did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
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Attention Intelligence Life Myself Success Time

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

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