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

Charlie Munger

I don’t spend much time regretting the past, once I’ve taken my lesson from it. I don’t dwell on it.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Lesson Myself Past Regret Time
Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
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Fast Rich Tragedy Yourself
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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Average Cash Character Money Myself Opportunity
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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Ego Profit Remember Try
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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Money Myself Situation Worst
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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Alone Curiosity Learning Need Pass People Time
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
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
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Average Definition Life Marketing Myself People Result Rule
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
To me, it’s obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It’s been obvious to me since very early in life. I don’t know why it’s not obvious to very many other people.
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Early Investment Life Myself People Win
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
Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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Brilliant Unknown Wisdom Yourself
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
The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Better Experience Hard Lesson Yourself
Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Acknowledgement Beginning Wisdom Yourself

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

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