The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It’s just that simple.
CHARLIE MUNGERI think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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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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We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
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Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
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Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.
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It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.
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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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I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
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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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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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People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
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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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The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights And you’re probably not going to be smart enough to find thousands in a lifetime. And when you get a few, you really load up. It’s just that simple.
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It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.
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It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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