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If all you needed to do is to figure out what company is better than others, everyone would make a lot of money. But that is not the case. They keep raising the prices to the point when the odds change.

~Charlie Munger

Topics: Better Case Change Company Everyone Figure Keep Lot Make Money Needed Odds Others Out Point Prices Raising Than Would You

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People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.

~Charlie Munger

Topics: Am Harder Idiotic Most People Smart Than Think Trying I Am

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I love when I think we're taking territory - if it makes sense in the long term, we just don't give a damn what it looks like in the short term. After all, we're running a cult, not a normal company.

~Charlie Munger

Topics: After Company Cult Damn Give Just Like Long Long Term Looks Love Makes Normal Running Sense Short Short Term Taking Term Territory Think I Think I Love

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If you're glued together right and honorable, you will succeed. Get in there and get rid of stupidities and avoid bad people. Try teaching that to your grandchildren. The best way is by example. Fix yourself.

~Charlie Munger

Topics: Avoid Bad Bad People Best Best Way Example Fix Get Glued Grandchildren Honorable People Rid Right Succeed Teaching Together Try Way Will You Your Yourself

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Economics profession, they've been - they've been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade doesn't work in the next. Economics is a difficult subject.

~Charlie Munger

Topics: Been Confident Decade Difficult Economics Formula Formulas Next Physics Profession Same Subject Various Work Works

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Most people don't grab the right ideas or don't know what to do with them.

~Charlie Munger

Topics: Grab Ideas Know Most People Right Them

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Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading.

~Charlie Munger

Topics: Confidently Devices Electronic Focused Generation Just Less Look Predict Reading Success Than This Generation Warren Who Will

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I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.

~Charlie Munger

Topics: About Advantage Anything Being Deeply Drifting Everybody Extra Giving Huge Mistake Much Pay People Practically Price Productive Think Time Who World You I Think

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If you're unhappy with what you've had over the last 50 years, you have an unfortunate misappraisal of life. It's as good as it gets, and it's very likely to get worse.

~Charlie Munger

Topics: Get Gets Good Had Last Life Likely Over Unfortunate Unhappy Very Worse Years You

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If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.

~Charlie Munger

Topics: About Acting Answer Any Anything Anything Else Because Came Capable Come Doing Else Get Hard Insisted Learned Life Me Never Pretty Right Successes Then Things Thinking Through Trying

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: January 1st, 1924

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