If the value of a company doesn’t just scream out at you, it’s too close.
CHARLIE MUNGERYou must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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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.
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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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It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.
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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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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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Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
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It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
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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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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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To me, it’s obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It’s been obvious to me since very early in life. I don’t know why it’s not obvious to very many other people.
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If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
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Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
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A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
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You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
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