I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses’ asses. I know I’ll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn.
CHARLIE MUNGERI like people admitting they were complete stupid horses’ asses. I know I’ll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn.
CHARLIE MUNGERI believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.
CHARLIE MUNGERA great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
CHARLIE MUNGERMove 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.
CHARLIE MUNGERShow me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
CHARLIE MUNGERThe more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
CHARLIE MUNGERIf the value of a company doesn’t just scream out at you, it’s too close.
CHARLIE MUNGERThe safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
CHARLIE MUNGERJust avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.
CHARLIE MUNGERIt’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.
CHARLIE MUNGERI try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.
CHARLIE MUNGERIt’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
CHARLIE MUNGERIt’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.
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.
CHARLIE MUNGERStep by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.
CHARLIE MUNGERThis is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.
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