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.
CHARLIE MUNGERIf you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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You’re looking for a mispriced gamble. That’s what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That’s value investing.
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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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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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The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
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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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If the value of a company doesn’t just scream out at you, it’s too close.
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I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.
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We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
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There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.
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A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
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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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Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
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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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