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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

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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Hard Work Honesty Yourself
Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.
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Aggression Meaning People Success Time Worry
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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Ability Capacity Carry Earth People
Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
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Mindset Opportunity Preparation
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?”
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Enough Explanation Goodness Smart Talk Yourself
Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
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Best Destroy Ideas Love Wasted Time 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
It’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.
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Experience Life Reading Thinking Yourself
I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
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Myself Substitution Thinking Time
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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Learning Mistake People Stupidity Trick Wonderful
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.
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Head Marketing People Rise Start Thinking World Yourself
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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Ego Profit Remember Try
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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Amazing Consistency Easy Learning Principle See
In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time – none … ZERO.
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Known Life Myself People Reading Time Wisdom
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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Business Goodness Mathematics Science Understand Yourself
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
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Delay Gratitude Greatness Investment

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