If you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
CHARLIE MUNGERSpend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
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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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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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I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.
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Three rules for a career: 1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy.
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The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
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This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.
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It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
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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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Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
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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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The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
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Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.
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If we’ve been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.
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