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Let me know what your problem is, and I will try to make it more difficult for you.

Charlie Munger

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Charlie Munger
Age: 100
Born: 1924
Born: January 1
Business Person
Financier
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Omaha
Nebraska
Charlie Thomas Munger
Charles T. Munger
Charles Thomas Munger
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Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.
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A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
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People calculate too much and think too little.
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Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.
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A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.
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It would be easier to screw up American Express than Coke or Gillette, but it's an immensely strong business.
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Financial institutions make us nervous when they're trying to do well.
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It's dangerous to short stocks.
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I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane. The legislators who leave that policy in place are derelict in their duties to be rational and fair. There are plenty of them in both political parties. It's totally outrageous.
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Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.
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Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.
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The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It's the assets you have to worry about.
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Those of us who have been very fortunate have a duty to give back. Whether one gives a lot as one goes along as I do or a little and then a lot [when one dies] as Warrendoes is a matter of personal preference. I would hate to have people ask me for money all day long.
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I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad. Even though there are some people who do very well, like Marc Rich-who plainly has never had any decent ethics, or seldom anyway. But in the end, Warren Buffett has done better than Marc Rich-in money-not just in reputation.
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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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Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.
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We have a passion for keeping things simple.
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I think the main figure that matters to all of us, including people in the media, is: How does GDP per capita grow? And those figures have been very good. There is a huge flux both up and down, so it isn't like we're all static in status. What's important is that pie grows.
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We have a history when things are really horrible of wading in when no one else will.
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After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See's, we've made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners. These opportunity costs don't show up on financial statements, but have cost us many billions.
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