
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.
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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.