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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.

Charlie Munger

If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won’t do it – you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Alone Curiosity Learning Need Pass People Time
There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Bound Method Regression
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
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
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 try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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Ego Profit Remember Try
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
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Focus Life Object 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
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Hard Work Investment People Wait Yourself
When you locate a bargain, you must ask, ‘Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?’
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God Location Myself Question
To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
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Appearance Man Problem Yourself
Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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Brilliant Unknown Wisdom Yourself
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
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Avoid Bad Business Death Early Marriage Success
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
Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.
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Aggression Meaning People Success Time Worry
This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.
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Goodness Important Lesson Life People Right System 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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