Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
CHARLIE MUNGERI don’t spend much time regretting the past, once I’ve taken my lesson from it. I don’t dwell on it.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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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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Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?
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I’m not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I’ve reached that state.
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It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.
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We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
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Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.
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A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.
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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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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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The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights And you’re probably not going to be smart enough to find thousands in a lifetime. And when you get a few, you really load up. It’s just that simple.
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Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.
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It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
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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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Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
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