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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.

Charlie Munger

People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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Ability Capacity Carry Earth People
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
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
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
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 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
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.
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Hope Life Simplicity Time Win Work Yourself
If the value of a company doesn’t just scream out at you, it’s too close.
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Company Scream Value Yourself
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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Investment Price Quality Simplicity Yourself
We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
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Business Competition Enough Life Myself Ruin
Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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Brilliant Unknown Wisdom Yourself
Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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Hard Work Honesty Yourself
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’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.
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Hard Work Investment People Wait Yourself
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
When you locate a bargain, you must ask, ‘Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?’
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God Location Myself Question

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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