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There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.

Charlie Munger

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
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Attention Intelligence Life Myself Success Time
Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
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Cost Decision Intelligence Opportunity People
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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Beginning Save Time Yourself
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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Business Goodness Mathematics Science Understand Yourself
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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Argument Myself Opinion Qualification Reach State Thinking
All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
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Death Funny Myself Place
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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Enough Explanation Goodness Smart Talk Yourself
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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Hope Life Simplicity Time Win Work 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
If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
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Best Care Company Price Time Yourself
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
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Deserve Safety Way Worth Yourself
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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Argument Myself Opinion Side
The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
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Game Last Learning Life Win Yourself
It’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.
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Experience Life Reading Thinking Yourself
Move only when you have an advantage. It’s very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.
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Advantage Basic Discipline Move Yourself
If you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
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Conduct Fools Service Yourself

There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.

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There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.

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