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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

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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Beginning Save Time Yourself
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Best Compassionate Empathy Help Human Kindness Learning
I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Confidence Myself People Question Reality Try
It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Failure Goodness Habit Quiet Success Yourself
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Ability Capacity Carry Earth People
This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Goodness Important Lesson Life People Right System Yourself
The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Game Last Learning Life Win Yourself
Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Best Destroy Ideas Love Wasted Time Yourself
If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Best Care Company Price Time Yourself
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
CHARLIE MUNGER

People Past Stupidity Way
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Amazing Consistency Easy Learning Principle See
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Life Mental Person Ruin Thinking 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
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Investment Price Quality Simplicity Yourself
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
You’re looking for a mispriced gamble. That’s what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That’s value investing.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Enough Gamble Investment Price Value

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