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.
CHARLIE MUNGERThe iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
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It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
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There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.
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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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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.
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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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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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The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
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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 stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
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It’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.
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You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
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Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
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We don’t like trading agony for money
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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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