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Up Quotes by Charlie Munger
- Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
- 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…
- Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
- I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest -- sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they…
- 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…
- The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights And you're probably not going to be smart…
- Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business…
- As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a course…
- Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
- Bull markets go to people's heads. If you're a duck on a pond, and it's rising due to a downpour, you start going up in…
- Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.
- The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to…
- Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to…
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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