Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
CHARLIE MUNGERIt’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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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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Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
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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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In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time – none … ZERO.
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If you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
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I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.
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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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I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
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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.
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I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
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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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Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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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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Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
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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.
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