The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
CHARLIE MUNGERIf you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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You don’t have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich – just a bit better than average over a long period of time.
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This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.
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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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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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It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
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A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.
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The average result has to be the average result. By definition, everybody can’t beat the market. As I always say, the iron rule of life is that only 20% of the people can be in the top fifth. That’s just the way it is.
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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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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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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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If you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
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Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.
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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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Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
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