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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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
Invert, always invert.
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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.
The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
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