It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.
CHARLIE MUNGERYour life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
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The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
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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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Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
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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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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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Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.
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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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If you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
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You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
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Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
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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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Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
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There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn’t cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.
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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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