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.
CHARLIE MUNGERI’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.
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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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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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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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The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It’s just that simple.
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Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.
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We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
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I’m not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I’ve reached that state.
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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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Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
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Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes. Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke.
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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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