Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
CHARLIE MUNGERThree rules for a career: 1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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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.
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Move only when you have an advantage. It’s very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.
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Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
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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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The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
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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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The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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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.
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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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Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
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The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
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People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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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.
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