We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
CHARLIE MUNGERYou’re looking for a mispriced gamble. That’s what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That’s value investing.
More Charlie Munger Quotes
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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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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 never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.
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You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
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The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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You’re looking for a mispriced gamble. That’s what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That’s value investing.
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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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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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Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
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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.
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Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
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The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
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Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.
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People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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