The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
CHARLIE MUNGERThe game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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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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I don’t spend much time regretting the past, once I’ve taken my lesson from it. I don’t dwell on it.
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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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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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Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.
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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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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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You don’t have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich – just a bit better than average over a long period of time.
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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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Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
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You’re not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here.
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Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
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I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses’ asses. I know I’ll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn.
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Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can’t derive this by fundamental analysis – you must think biologically.
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How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
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