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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.

Charlie Munger

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
It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
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Failure Goodness Habit Quiet Success Yourself
You’re looking for a mispriced gamble. That’s what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That’s value investing.
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Enough Gamble Investment Price Value
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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Ability Capacity Carry Earth People
If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you’re enumerate, you’re going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don’t have to know any higher math.
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Business Goodness Mathematics Science Understand Yourself
Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.
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Gamble heavy Winning
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
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.
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Hard Work Investment People Wait Yourself
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
Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
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Bed Knowledge Learning Smart Wake Up Yourself
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
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
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People Past Stupidity Way
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
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.
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Money Myself Situation Worst
Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
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Acknowledgement Beginning Wisdom Yourself
Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
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Beginning Save Time 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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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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