Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.
CHARLIE MUNGERAll I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.
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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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The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
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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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It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
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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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Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
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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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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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Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
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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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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.
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The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It’s just that simple.
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You’re looking for a mispriced gamble. That’s what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That’s value investing.
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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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