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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.

Charlie Munger

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
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
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
It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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Drive Greedy Jealous World
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Life Mental Person Ruin Thinking Yourself
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
Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Power 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don’t. It’s just that simple.
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Big heavy Offering Oneself Opportunity Simplicity Time Wisdom World
The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Better Experience Hard Lesson Yourself

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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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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