We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
CHARLIE MUNGERIf the value of a company doesn’t just scream out at you, it’s too close.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
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Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can’t derive this by fundamental analysis – you must think biologically.
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The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
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I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.
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Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
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Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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I don’t spend much time regretting the past, once I’ve taken my lesson from it. I don’t dwell on it.
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If you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
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Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
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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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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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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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Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
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Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.
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