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The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

Charlie Munger

Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.
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Company Greatness Investment Yourself
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
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Avoid Bad Business Death Early Marriage Success
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.
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Financial Institution Money Respect
To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
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Appearance Man Problem Yourself
A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
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Business Choice Greatness Price
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
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
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Intelligence Job Ourselves World
Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
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Hard Work Honesty Yourself
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
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Argument Best Challenge Force Ideas Love
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
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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Head Marketing People Rise Start Thinking World Yourself
Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
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Power Thinking Yourself
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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God Location Myself Question
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
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Best Compassionate Empathy Help Human Kindness Learning
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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Ability Capacity Carry Earth People
There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes. Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke.
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Broke Live Mistake Myself People Psychology Trick

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