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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.

Charlie Munger

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
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Attention Intelligence Life Myself Success Time
If the value of a company doesn’t just scream out at you, it’s too close.
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Company Scream Value Yourself
Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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Brilliant Unknown Wisdom 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
Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
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Acknowledgement Beginning Wisdom Yourself
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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Early Investment Life Myself People Win
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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Argument Myself Opinion Qualification Reach State Thinking
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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Average Better Perfection Rich Wisdom Yourself
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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Easy Family Life Rich Time Yourself
Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.
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Avoid Development Habit Mental Race Training
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
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
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
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People Past Stupidity Way
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
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Argument Best Challenge Force Ideas Love
Bull markets go to people’s heads. If you’re a duck on a pond, and it’s rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it’s you, not the pond.
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Head Marketing People Rise Start Thinking World Yourself
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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Hard Work Investment People Wait Yourself

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