“Never underestimate the man who overestimates himself.”
Charlie Munger
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“If anything, I now believe even more strongly that reliability is essential for progress in life and while quantum mechanics is unlearnable for a vast majority, reliability can be learned to great advantage by almost anyone.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“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“I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.”
— 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.”
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“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Disputed“He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“A Prince, criticised by his subjects, should never attempt to justify himself to them.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Disputed“He that never eats too much, will never be lazy.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source