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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.

Charlie Munger

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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Biology Evolution Investment Money Practice Prediction Thinking
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Hope Life Simplicity Time Win Work Yourself
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Focus Life Object Yourself
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?”
CHARLIE MUNGER

Enough Explanation Goodness Smart Talk Yourself
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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Amazing Consistency Easy Learning Principle See
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
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Delay Gratitude Greatness Investment
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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Average Cash Character Money Myself Opportunity
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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Alone Curiosity Learning Need Pass People Time
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Hard Work Investment People Wait Yourself
Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.
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Avoid Development Habit Mental Race Training
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Big heavy Offering Oneself Opportunity Simplicity Time Wisdom World
If you get into the mental habit of relating what you’re reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.
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Basic Habit Mental Reading Structure Wisdom
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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Attraction Nature Reward Rule Yourself
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Head Marketing People Rise Start Thinking World Yourself
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Average Definition Life Marketing Myself People Result Rule
There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.
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Bound Method Regression

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