This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.
CHARLIE MUNGERHow do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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To me, it’s obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It’s been obvious to me since very early in life. I don’t know why it’s not obvious to very many other people.
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It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
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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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Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
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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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Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
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When you locate a bargain, you must ask, ‘Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?’
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People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
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Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.
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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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Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
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The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
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