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Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

Charlie Munger

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Intelligence Job Ourselves World
You’re not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Learning Leaving Life Yourself
The average result has to be the average result. By definition, everybody can’t beat the market. As I always say, the iron rule of life is that only 20% of the people can be in the top fifth. That’s just the way it is.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Average Definition Life Marketing Myself People Result Rule
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Biology Evolution Investment Money Practice Prediction Thinking
Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Fast Rare Yourself
The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Game Last Learning Life Win Yourself
When you locate a bargain, you must ask, ‘Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?’
CHARLIE MUNGER

God Location Myself Question
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
Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Mindset Opportunity Preparation
Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Beginning Save Time Yourself
I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Myself Substitution Thinking Time
I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Argument Myself Opinion Side
It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Drive Greedy Jealous World
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?”
CHARLIE MUNGER

Enough Explanation Goodness Smart Talk Yourself
If we’ve been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Fall Learning Life Open People School Success Yourself
Bull markets go to people’s heads. If you’re a duck on a pond, and it’s rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it’s you, not the pond.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Head Marketing People Rise Start Thinking World Yourself

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