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Life Quotes by Charlie Munger
- You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it…
- The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
- Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
- I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest -- sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they…
- Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.
- Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the…
- In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero.…
- You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies. I can never make it easy by saying, 'Here are three things.' You…
- 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…
- Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
- Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life
- It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.
- Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you've got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the…
- A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
- Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better
- I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
- Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t mix…
- 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…
- 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…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle