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Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.

Charlie Munger

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
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Best Compassionate Empathy Help Human Kindness Learning
It’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.
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Experience Life Reading Thinking Yourself
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
Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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Hard Work Honesty Yourself
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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Big heavy Offering Oneself Opportunity Simplicity Time Wisdom World
We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
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Business Competition Enough Life Myself Ruin
Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can’t derive this by fundamental analysis – you must think biologically.
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Biology Evolution Investment Money Practice Prediction Thinking
Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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Brilliant Unknown Wisdom Yourself
It 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.
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Amazing Consistency Easy Learning Principle See
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
The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It’s just that simple.
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Investment Price Quality Simplicity Yourself
Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
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Fast Rich Tragedy Yourself
Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.
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Aggression Meaning People Success Time Worry
Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
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Bed Knowledge Learning Smart Wake Up Yourself
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.
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Broke Live Mistake Myself People Psychology Trick
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
Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
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Power Thinking Yourself
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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Intelligence Job Ourselves World
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
To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
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Appearance Man Problem Yourself
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 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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Fall Learning Life Open People School Success Yourself
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.
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Financial Institution Money Respect
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
I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.
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Argument Myself Opinion Side
Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
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Mindset Opportunity Preparation
It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.
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Average Cash Character Money Myself Opportunity

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