The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
CHARLIE MUNGERWhy should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
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Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
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Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
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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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Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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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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Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
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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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There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.
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I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses’ asses. I know I’ll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn.
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It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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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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I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.
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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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I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
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Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
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It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
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To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
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Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
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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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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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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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Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.
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Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
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We don’t like trading agony for money
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