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.
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Charlie Munger
Born in 1924 in Omaha, Munger was Berkshire Hathaway's vice chairman and Buffett's partner for over half a century. His mental-models framework and inversion thinking expanded value investing beyond financial analysis.
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Charlie Munger's Other Quotes
The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
Invert, always invert.
To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines.
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