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The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

Charlie Munger

It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Hard Work Investment People Wait 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
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.
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Financial Institution Money Respect
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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Fall Learning Life Open People School Success Yourself
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
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Deserve Safety Way Worth Yourself
Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
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Beginning Save Time Yourself
The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
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Better Experience Hard Lesson Yourself
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
The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don’t. It’s just that simple.
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Big heavy Offering Oneself Opportunity Simplicity Time Wisdom World
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
Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
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Power Thinking Yourself
Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
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Bed Knowledge Learning Smart Wake Up 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
Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.
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Gamble heavy Winning
We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
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Business Competition Enough Life Myself Ruin
We don’t like trading agony for money
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Agony Money Trade

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