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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

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
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Cost Decision Intelligence Opportunity People
You don’t have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich – just a bit better than average over a long period of time.
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Average Better Perfection Rich Wisdom Yourself
Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
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Power Thinking Yourself
I don’t spend much time regretting the past, once I’ve taken my lesson from it. I don’t dwell on it.
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Lesson Myself Past Regret Time
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
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
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
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
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
A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: “You don’t seem smart enough to be so good at what you’re doing. Do you have an explanation?”
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Enough Explanation Goodness Smart Talk Yourself
I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.
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Confidence Myself People Question Reality Try
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
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.
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Advantage Basic Discipline Move Yourself
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
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
How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
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Best Build Possible Rival True 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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