To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
CHARLIE MUNGERAcknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
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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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Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can’t derive this by fundamental analysis – you must think biologically.
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Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
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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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I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
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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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People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.
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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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Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
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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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The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
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It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
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