The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
CHARLIE MUNGERTo 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.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.
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All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
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We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
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If you get into the mental habit of relating what you’re reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.
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Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
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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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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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The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
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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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There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.
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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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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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People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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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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Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.
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