We don’t like trading agony for money
CHARLIE MUNGERGreat investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
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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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The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
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I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.
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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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The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights And you’re probably not going to be smart enough to find thousands in a lifetime. And when you get a few, you really load up. It’s just that simple.
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The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don’t. It’s just that simple.
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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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I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.
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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 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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The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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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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You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
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