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... some people try to get on the cutting edge of change — they are destroying other people, instead of being destroyed themselves.

— Charlie Munger

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Good investing requires a weird combination of patience and aggression.

I don't think that she knows who Adam Smith was.

If you want to succeed in investments, start early and try hard and keep doing it. All success comes that way, by and large.

The hard part of the process for most people is the first $100,000. If you have a standing start at zero, getting together $100,000 is a long struggle for most people.

I think American education could be better — but not in the hands of many of the people who now teach it.

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To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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