We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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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All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
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The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
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Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
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Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
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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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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.
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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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The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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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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I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.
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We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
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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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You’re not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here.
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It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.
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