I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
CHARLIE MUNGER
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
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It’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.
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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.
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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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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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The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
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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?”
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A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.
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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.
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If you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
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It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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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.
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Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
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It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
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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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It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
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