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We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.

Charlie Munger

Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.
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Fast Rare Yourself
It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
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Failure Goodness Habit Quiet Success Yourself
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
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Investment Myself Result Yourself
We don’t like trading agony for money
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Agony Money Trade
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
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Focus Life Object Yourself
We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
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Business Competition Enough Life Myself Ruin
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
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Delay Gratitude Greatness Investment
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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Ability Capacity Carry Earth People
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.
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Business Goodness Mathematics Science Understand Yourself
Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
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Brilliant Unknown Wisdom Yourself
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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Early Investment Life Myself People Win
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
CHARLIE MUNGER

Ego Profit Remember Try
If the value of a company doesn’t just scream out at you, it’s too close.
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Company Scream Value Yourself
Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
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Power Thinking Yourself
If we’ve been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.
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Fall Learning Life Open People School Success Yourself
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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Amazing Consistency Easy Learning Principle See

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