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

Charlie Munger

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Charlie Munger
Age: 100
Born: 1924
Born: January 1
Business Person
Financier
Investor
Lawyer
Omaha
Nebraska
Charlie Thomas Munger
Charles T. Munger
Charles Thomas Munger
Almost
Keep
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Hard
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The investment game is getting more and more competitive.
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A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it.
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In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.
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The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
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A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent.
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Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
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People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.
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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 very uncommon in American business. We read and think.
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You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.
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To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
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I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.
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The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.
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Berkshire has the lowest turnover of any major company in the U.S.The Walton family owns more of Wal-Mart than Buffett owns of Berkshire, so it isn't because of large holdings. It's because we have a really unusual shareholder body that thinks of itself as owners and not holders of little pieces of paper.
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I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is bonkers. It was an intellectually consistent theory that enabled them to do pretty mathematics. So I understand its seductiveness to people with large mathematical gifts. It just had a difficulty in that the fundamental assumption did not tie properly to reality.
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I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
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I feel that by getting rich in the way I did, I think my own example has hurt my own country.
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I don't want to understand Facebook.
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It's not a competency if you don't know the edge of it.
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If the technology hadn't changed, they [newspapers] would still be great businesses. Network TV [in its heyday], anyone could run and do well. If Tom Murphy as running it, you'd do very well, but even your idiot nephew could do well. Fortunately, carbide cutting tools [such as those made by Iscar] don't have these types of substitutes.
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If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.
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