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All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.

Charlie Munger

Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Power Thinking Yourself
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Intelligence Job Ourselves World
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Money Myself Situation Worst
When you locate a bargain, you must ask, ‘Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?’
CHARLIE MUNGER

God Location Myself Question
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Focus Life Object 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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Average Cash Character Money Myself Opportunity
A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: “You don’t seem smart enough to be so good at what you’re doing. Do you have an explanation?”
CHARLIE MUNGER

Enough Explanation Goodness Smart Talk Yourself
I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Myself Right Smart Yourself
I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Argument Myself Opinion Side
We don’t like trading agony for money
CHARLIE MUNGER

Agony Money Trade
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Avoid Bad Business Death Early Marriage Success
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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Basic Habit Mental Reading Structure Wisdom
I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Confidence Myself People Question Reality Try
We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Business Competition Enough Life Myself Ruin
Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?
CHARLIE MUNGER

Easy Family Life Rich Time Yourself
A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Business Choice Greatness Price

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