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

Charlie Munger

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
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
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Delay Gratitude Greatness Investment
Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.
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Aggression Meaning People Success Time Worry
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
We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
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Business Competition Enough Life Myself Ruin
You’re not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here.
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Learning Leaving Life Yourself
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
Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.
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Gamble heavy Winning
How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
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Best Build Possible Rival True 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
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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Advantage Consistent Intelligence People Remark Stupidity Try
Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
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Fast Rich Tragedy 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
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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Ability Capacity Carry Earth People
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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Ego Profit Remember Try
You don’t have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich – just a bit better than average over a long period of time.
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Average Better Perfection Rich Wisdom Yourself

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