“You’ll be happier if you reduce your expectations than if you try and satisfy them.”
Charlie Munger
Daily Journal Corporation Annual Meeting (Primary source)
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“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter) who didn’t read all the time—none, zero. You’d be amazed how much Warren reads—and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“So you have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“Invert, always invert”
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“If you’d have a servant that you like, serve yourself.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Sleep without supping, and you'll rise without owing for it.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“It is never hopeless. But sometimes I cannot hope. I try always to hope but sometimes I cannot.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
— Winston Churchill Disputed