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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

How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Best Build Possible Rival True Yourself
I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Myself Right Smart Yourself
I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Myself Substitution Thinking Time
I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Confidence Myself People Question Reality Try
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Delay Gratitude Greatness Investment
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Confirmation Experience Financial Preparation Result
If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Best Care Company Price Time Yourself
Bull markets go to people’s heads. If you’re a duck on a pond, and it’s rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it’s you, not the pond.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Head Marketing People Rise Start Thinking World Yourself
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Deserve Safety Way Worth 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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Accountability Information Life Master Planning Reality
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Investment Myself Result Yourself
To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Appearance Man Problem Yourself
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?”
CHARLIE MUNGER

Enough Explanation Goodness Smart Talk Yourself
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Ego Profit Remember Try
If the value of a company doesn’t just scream out at you, it’s too close.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Company Scream Value Yourself
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Money Myself Situation Worst

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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