Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
CHARLIE MUNGERI’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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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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The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
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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 has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn’t cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.
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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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Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
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Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
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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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There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes. Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke.
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When you locate a bargain, you must ask, ‘Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?’
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If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
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Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
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We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
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The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
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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.
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