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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.

Charlie Munger

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.
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Avoid Development Habit Mental Race Training
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
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
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Best Compassionate Empathy Help Human Kindness Learning
We don’t like trading agony for money
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Agony Money Trade
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
Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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Hard Work Honesty 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
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
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
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.
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Financial Institution Money Respect
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
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Deserve Safety Way Worth Yourself
I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.
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Confidence Myself People Question Reality Try
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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Ego Profit Remember Try
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
You’re not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here.
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Learning Leaving Life 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

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