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 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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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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Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
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The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
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Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
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It’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.
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The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
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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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A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
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The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
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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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Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It’s just that simple.
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Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
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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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