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A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

Charlie Munger

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

Brilliant Unknown Wisdom Yourself
How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Best Build Possible Rival True Yourself
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Ego Profit Remember Try
Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Company Greatness Investment Yourself
The average result has to be the average result. By definition, everybody can’t beat the market. As I always say, the iron rule of life is that only 20% of the people can be in the top fifth. That’s just the way it is.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Average Definition Life Marketing Myself People Result Rule
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Believe Best Master Myself People Smart
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Basic Habit Mental Reading Structure Wisdom
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Fall Learning Life Open People School Success Yourself
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Financial Institution Money Respect
I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses’ asses. I know I’ll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Learning Mistake People Stupidity Trick Wonderful
There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Money Myself Situation Worst
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Attraction Nature Reward Rule Yourself
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Avoid Bad Business Death Early Marriage Success
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Best Compassionate Empathy Help Human Kindness Learning
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Hard Work Investment People Wait Yourself
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Argument Myself Opinion Qualification Reach State Thinking

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