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I don’t spend much time regretting the past, once I’ve taken my lesson from it. I don’t dwell on it.

Charlie Munger

We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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Ego Profit Remember Try
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
Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
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Mindset Opportunity Preparation
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
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Deserve Safety Way Worth Yourself
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
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Best Compassionate Empathy Help Human Kindness Learning
You don’t have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich – just a bit better than average over a long period of time.
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Average Better Perfection Rich Wisdom Yourself
We don’t like trading agony for money
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Agony Money Trade
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
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
It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.
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Hard Work Investment People Wait Yourself
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
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
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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Goodness Important Lesson Life People Right System Yourself
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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Avoid Bad Business Death Early Marriage Success
It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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Drive Greedy Jealous World
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

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