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World Quotes by Charlie Munger
- Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
- We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments…
- A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance -- checks and doublechecks and so forth -- you could create…
- 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…
- I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral…
- In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell.
- Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in…
- It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
- The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It's such a simple idea. It's the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given…
- You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines, and use them routinely - all of them, not just a few. Most people are…
- Deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.
- The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence…
- 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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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach