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.
CHARLIE MUNGERBull 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.
CHARLIE MUNGERKnowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
CHARLIE MUNGERIf you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
CHARLIE MUNGERThe safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
CHARLIE MUNGERWhen you locate a bargain, you must ask, ‘Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?’
CHARLIE MUNGERIt’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
CHARLIE MUNGERWe try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
CHARLIE MUNGERThe iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
CHARLIE MUNGERAny year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
CHARLIE MUNGERWe have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
CHARLIE MUNGERThe 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 MUNGERTo the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
CHARLIE MUNGERIf the value of a company doesn’t just scream out at you, it’s too close.
CHARLIE MUNGERIt never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.
CHARLIE MUNGERI think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
CHARLIE MUNGERAcknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
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