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.
CHARLIE MUNGERCommon stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can’t derive this by fundamental analysis – you must think biologically.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
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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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We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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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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I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
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We don’t like trading agony for money
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Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
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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.
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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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The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
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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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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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Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
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To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
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