Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
CHARLIE MUNGERIt’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.
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The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It’s just that simple.
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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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The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
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It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.
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We don’t like trading agony for money
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Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.
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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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There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes. Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke.
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The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
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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.
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To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
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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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Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
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