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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.

Charlie Munger

This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Goodness Important Lesson Life People Right System Yourself
Move only when you have an advantage. It’s very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Advantage Basic Discipline Move Yourself
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
Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Acknowledgement Beginning Wisdom Yourself
You’re looking for a mispriced gamble. That’s what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That’s value investing.
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Enough Gamble Investment Price Value
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
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
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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Business Goodness Mathematics Science Understand Yourself
Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
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Mindset Opportunity Preparation
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
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Investment Myself Result Yourself
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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Broke Live Mistake Myself People Psychology Trick
The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Game Last Learning Life Win Yourself
A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
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Business Choice Greatness Price
I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
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Myself Substitution Thinking Time
To me, it’s obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It’s been obvious to me since very early in life. I don’t know why it’s not obvious to very many other people.
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Early Investment Life Myself People Win
I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.
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Argument Myself Opinion Side

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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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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