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It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Charlie Munger

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
All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Death Funny Myself Place
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
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Best Compassionate Empathy Help Human Kindness Learning
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
We don’t like trading agony for money
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Agony Money Trade
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
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Intelligence Job Ourselves World
Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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Brilliant Unknown Wisdom Yourself
I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
CHARLIE MUNGER

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

Better Experience Hard Lesson Yourself
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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Ability Capacity Carry Earth People
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
There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.
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Bound Method Regression
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
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

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