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People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.

Charlie Munger

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Attraction Nature Reward Rule Yourself
All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.
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Death Funny Myself Place
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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Average Better Perfection Rich Wisdom Yourself
I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
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Myself Right Smart Yourself
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
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Best Compassionate Empathy Help Human Kindness Learning
I don’t spend much time regretting the past, once I’ve taken my lesson from it. I don’t dwell on it.
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Lesson Myself Past Regret Time
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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Believe Best Master Myself People Smart
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?”
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Enough Explanation Goodness Smart Talk Yourself
I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
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Attention Intelligence Life Myself Success Time
Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.
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Fast Rare Yourself
Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Fast Rich Tragedy 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.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Learning Leaving Life Yourself
The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Better Experience Hard Lesson Yourself
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Life Mental Person Ruin Thinking Yourself
If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
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Best Care Company Price Time Yourself
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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Advantage Consistent Intelligence People Remark Stupidity Try

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