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It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.

Charlie Munger

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Better Experience Hard Lesson Yourself
The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Big Marketing Buy Money Sell Wait
Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Mindset Opportunity Preparation
It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Drive Greedy Jealous World
In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time – none … ZERO.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Known Life Myself People Reading Time Wisdom
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Beginning Save Time Yourself
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
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 don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Conduct Fools Service Yourself
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Financial Institution Money Respect
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Admire Business Career Enjoyment People Respect Rule Work Yourself
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Focus Life Object Yourself
If we’ve been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Fall Learning Life Open People School Success Yourself
When you locate a bargain, you must ask, ‘Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?’
CHARLIE MUNGER

God Location Myself Question
You’re not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Learning Leaving Life Yourself
I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Believe Best Master Myself People Smart

It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.

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