The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.
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Other Charlie Munger quotes:
The only way to win is to work, work, work, work, and hope to have a few insights.
Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
How to find a good spouse? - the best single way is to deserve a good spouse.
It's dishonourable to stay stupider than you need to be.
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people.
If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.
A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.
