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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

Move only when you have an advantage. It’s very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Advantage Basic Discipline Move 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
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
If the value of a company doesn’t just scream out at you, it’s too close.
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Company Scream Value Yourself
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
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Advantage Consistent Intelligence People Remark Stupidity Try
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
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People Past Stupidity Way
Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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Hard Work Honesty Yourself
The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
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Game Last Learning Life Win Yourself
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.
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Basic Habit Mental Reading Structure Wisdom
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
Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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Brilliant Unknown Wisdom Yourself
Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.
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Avoid Development Habit Mental Race Training
Three rules for a career: 1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy.
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Admire Business Career Enjoyment People Respect Rule Work 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
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
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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Ego Profit Remember Try

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