You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
CHARLIE MUNGERIn my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time – none … ZERO.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
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Bull markets go to people’s heads. If you’re a duck on a pond, and it’s rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it’s you, not the pond.
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I 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.
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A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
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Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
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You don’t have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich – just a bit better than average over a long period of time.
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If you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
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We don’t like trading agony for money
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To me, it’s obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It’s been obvious to me since very early in life. I don’t know why it’s not obvious to very many other people.
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The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
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All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
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The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don’t. It’s just that simple.
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How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
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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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Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
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