Charlie Munger Quotes

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• Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.

  Charlie Munger

  Knowing, Brilliant, Knows

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• The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

  Charlie Munger

  Waiting, Buying, Selling

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• Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

  Charlie Munger

  Knows

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• Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.

  Charlie Munger

  Faces, Improvement

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• Three rules for a career: 1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy.

  Charlie Munger

  Careers, People, Three

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• Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome

  Charlie Munger

  Incentives, Outcomes, Show Me

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• It's stupid the way people extrapolate the past -- and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.

  Charlie Munger

  Stupid, Past, People

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• You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

  Charlie Munger

  Best Love, Ideas, Challenges

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• I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, Attention, Succeed

  "Billionaire Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's right-hand man, offers sage advice on how to be productive" by Farnam Street, www.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

  Charlie Munger

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Helping Others

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• Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.

  Charlie Munger

  Progress, Size, Wealth

  ""Here's a 10 point plan to invest like Charlie Munger" by John Szramiak". www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2016.

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• In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

  Charlie Munger

  Wise, Zero, People

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• Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

  Charlie Munger

  Investing, Delayed Gratification, Gratification

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• Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Victimization, Persons

  Charlie Munger's comments on John Train at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• 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 intelligent.

  Charlie Munger

  Stupid, Intelligent, Long

  "Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger". Book by Janet Lowe, 2000.

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• The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

  Charlie Munger

  Lessons, Hard Lessons, Hard

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• It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

  Charlie Munger

  Quiet, Habit, Trumpets

  "Berkshire Behind the Scenes: Part 3". Berkshire Hathaway Q&A session, www.fool.com. May 30, 2006.

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• The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

  Charlie Munger

  Mermaid, Want, Way

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• Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

  Charlie Munger

  Opportunity, Mind, Prepared

  BRK Annual Meeting, Afternoon Session, buffett.cnbc.com. April 28, 2001.

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• I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

  Charlie Munger

  Sides, Opinion, Argument

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• It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

  Charlie Munger

  Reading, Thinking, Ifs

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• 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, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Waiting, Overcoming

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• A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success

  Charlie Munger

  Crazy, Adversity, Loss

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• Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

  Charlie Munger

  Honesty, Hard Work, Investing

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• 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 to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

  Charlie Munger

  Dream, Smart, Believe

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