The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
CHARLIE MUNGERI think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
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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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There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes. Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke.
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A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.
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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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Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?
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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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Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
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If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
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Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
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People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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I’m not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I’ve reached that state.
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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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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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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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