“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“Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question [of whether you are past the boundary] is to answer it.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source’I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Being able to recognize that you are wrong is a godsend.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“I don’t play in a game where the other people are wise and I’m stupid. I look for a place where I’m wise and they’re stupid.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
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