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We don't want to make our money selling things that are bad for people.

— 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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