Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.
CHARLIE MUNGERIf you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
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Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
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If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you’re enumerate, you’re going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don’t have to know any higher math.
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The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don’t. It’s just that simple.
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The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
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If we’ve been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.
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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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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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Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.
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Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
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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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Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
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How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
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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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