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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

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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Believe Best Master Myself People Smart
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
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If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
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Best Care Company Price Time Yourself
Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
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Beginning Save Time Yourself
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
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Deserve Safety Way Worth Yourself
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
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Delay Gratitude Greatness Investment
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
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Investment Myself Result Yourself
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
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Life Mental Person Ruin Thinking Yourself
All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
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Death Funny Myself Place
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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Ego Profit Remember Try
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
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Intelligence Job Ourselves World
If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won’t do it – you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.
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Alone Curiosity Learning Need Pass People Time
I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
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Myself Right Smart Yourself
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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Big heavy Offering Oneself Opportunity Simplicity Time Wisdom World
Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.
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Confirmation Experience Financial Preparation Result
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
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Argument Best Challenge Force Ideas Love

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