Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
CHARLIE MUNGERIf the value of a company doesn’t just scream out at you, it’s too close.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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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.
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The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don’t. It’s just that simple.
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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.
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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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Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
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In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time – none … ZERO.
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It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
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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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How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
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There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.
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The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
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It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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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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Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
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Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.
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