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Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

Charlie Munger

Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Power Thinking Yourself
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Investment Myself Result Yourself
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Accountability Information Life Master Planning Reality
I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Argument Myself Opinion Side
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Focus Life Object Yourself
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?”
CHARLIE MUNGER

Enough Explanation Goodness Smart Talk Yourself
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Hope Life Simplicity Time Win Work Yourself
If you get into the mental habit of relating what you’re reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Basic Habit Mental Reading Structure Wisdom
I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Myself Right Smart Yourself
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Fall Learning Life Open People School Success Yourself
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Biology Evolution Investment Money Practice Prediction Thinking
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Argument Best Challenge Force Ideas Love
Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?
CHARLIE MUNGER

Easy Family Life Rich Time Yourself
Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Mindset Opportunity Preparation
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Delay Gratitude Greatness Investment
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Attraction Nature Reward Rule Yourself

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