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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.

Charlie Munger

Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.
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Aggression Meaning People Success Time Worry
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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Ability Capacity Carry Earth People
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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Avoid Bad Business Death Early Marriage Success
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.
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Admire Business Career Enjoyment People Respect Rule Work Yourself
Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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Hard Work Honesty Yourself
If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you’re enumerate, you’re going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don’t have to know any higher math.
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Business Goodness Mathematics Science Understand Yourself
This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.
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Goodness Important Lesson Life People Right System Yourself
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
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Focus Life Object Yourself
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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Alone Curiosity Learning Need Pass People Time
Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
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Best Destroy Ideas Love Wasted Time Yourself
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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Investment Price Quality Simplicity Yourself
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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Hope Life Simplicity Time Win Work Yourself
I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.
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Argument Myself Opinion Side
I don’t spend much time regretting the past, once I’ve taken my lesson from it. I don’t dwell on it.
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Lesson Myself Past Regret Time
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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Enough Explanation Goodness Smart Talk Yourself
I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
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Myself Substitution Thinking Time

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