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Three 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.

Charlie Munger

We don’t like trading agony for money
CHARLIE MUNGER

Agony Money Trade
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Hard Work Investment People Wait Yourself
Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Power Thinking Yourself
Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Company Greatness Investment Yourself
It’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Experience Life Reading Thinking Yourself
To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Appearance Man Problem Yourself
If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Best Care Company Price Time Yourself
Bull markets go to people’s heads. If you’re a duck on a pond, and it’s rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it’s you, not the pond.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Head Marketing People Rise Start Thinking World Yourself
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Intelligence Job Ourselves World
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
Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Brilliant Unknown Wisdom Yourself
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Focus Life Object Yourself
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Avoid Bad Business Death Early Marriage Success
I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Argument Myself Opinion Side
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Deserve Safety Way Worth Yourself
If you get into the mental habit of relating what you’re reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Basic Habit Mental Reading Structure Wisdom

Three 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.

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Three 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.

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