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It’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.

Charlie Munger

Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.
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Fast Rare Yourself
It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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Drive Greedy Jealous World
Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
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Best Destroy Ideas Love Wasted Time Yourself
Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.
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Company Greatness Investment Yourself
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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Hope Life Simplicity Time Win Work Yourself
Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
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Cost Decision Intelligence Opportunity People
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
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People Past Stupidity Way
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
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
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
The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
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Better Experience Hard Lesson 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
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 has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn’t cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.
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Accountability Information Life Master Planning Reality
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 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

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