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The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Charlie Munger

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
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.
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Financial Institution Money Respect
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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Average Better Perfection Rich Wisdom Yourself
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
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
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
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Intelligence Job Ourselves World
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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Easy Family Life Rich Time Yourself
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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Believe Best Master Myself People Smart
I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
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Attention Intelligence Life Myself Success Time
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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Early Investment Life Myself People Win
All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
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Death Funny Myself Place
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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Confirmation Experience Financial Preparation Result
It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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Drive Greedy Jealous World
The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
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Game Last Learning Life Win Yourself
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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God Location Myself Question
Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
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Bed Knowledge Learning Smart Wake Up Yourself

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