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 MUNGEROur experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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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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We don’t like trading agony for money
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Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
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When you locate a bargain, you must ask, ‘Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?’
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The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
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Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
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A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.
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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’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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Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.
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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.
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It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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I don’t spend much time regretting the past, once I’ve taken my lesson from it. I don’t dwell on it.
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Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
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