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Very 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…
- It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very…
- The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the corner…
- We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is…
- 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…
- The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high…
- I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well…
- Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at…
- Everybody engaged in complex work needs colleagues. Just the discipline of having to put your thoughts in order with somebody else is a very useful…
- I find it quite useful to think of a free-market economy - or partly free market economy - as sort of the equivalent of an…
- It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene,…
- Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much…
- 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…
- 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…
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