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Charlie Munger

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
There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn’t cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.
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Accountability Information Life Master Planning Reality
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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Beginning Save Time Yourself
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
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Ego Profit Remember Try
It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
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Failure Goodness Habit Quiet Success Yourself
Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
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Mindset Opportunity Preparation
Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
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Best Destroy Ideas Love Wasted Time Yourself
Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
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Acknowledgement Beginning Wisdom Yourself
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
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
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Focus Life Object Yourself
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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Attraction Nature Reward Rule Yourself
If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you’re enumerate, you’re going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don’t have to know any higher math.
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Business Goodness Mathematics Science Understand Yourself
Move 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.
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Advantage Basic Discipline Move Yourself
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
I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
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Myself Substitution Thinking Time
If you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
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Conduct Fools Service Yourself

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