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I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

Charlie Munger

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

Lesson Myself Past Regret Time
If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won’t do it – you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Alone Curiosity Learning Need Pass People Time
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Attraction Nature Reward Rule Yourself
A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Business Choice Greatness Price
If you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Conduct Fools Service Yourself
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Ego Profit Remember Try
Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Acknowledgement Beginning Wisdom Yourself
Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Aggression Meaning People Success Time Worry
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Delay Gratitude Greatness Investment
I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Myself Right Smart Yourself
Three rules for a career: 1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Admire Business Career Enjoyment People Respect Rule Work Yourself
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Believe Best Master Myself People Smart
You don’t have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich – just a bit better than average over a long period of time.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Average Better Perfection Rich Wisdom Yourself
I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Myself Substitution Thinking Time
It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Failure Goodness Habit Quiet Success Yourself
We don’t like trading agony for money
CHARLIE MUNGER

Agony Money Trade

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