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Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.

Charlie Munger

It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
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People Past Stupidity Way
It’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Experience Life Reading Thinking Yourself
I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
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Myself Right Smart Yourself
Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.
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Confirmation Experience Financial Preparation Result
Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
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Cost Decision Intelligence Opportunity People
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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Lesson Myself Past Regret Time
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
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
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Life Mental Person Ruin Thinking Yourself
There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.
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Bound Method Regression
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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Believe Best Master Myself People Smart
Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
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Acknowledgement Beginning Wisdom Yourself
All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
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Death Funny Myself Place
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.
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Learning Leaving Life Yourself
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
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Deserve Safety Way Worth Yourself
In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time – none … ZERO.
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Known Life Myself People Reading Time Wisdom
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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Avoid Bad Business Death Early Marriage Success

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