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Invest in Learning
Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.
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Invest in Knowledge
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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Easily Learned Principles
It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently...
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Reading and Thinking
We both, Warren Buffett and I, insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit...
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Learn Vicariously
The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
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Commit to Learning and Thinking
My habit of committing far more time to learning and thinking than to doing is no accident.
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Repetition in Learning
Repetition is the heart of instruction.
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Continue to Learn
The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you’re very well trained and have some natural aptitude,...
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Rub Your Nose in Mistakes
Since mistakes of omission don’t appear in the financial statements, most people don’t pay attention to them. We rub our...
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Smarter Earlier
Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better.
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Meeting Towering Intellectuals
I met the towering intellectuals in books, not in the classroom, which is natural. I can’t remember when I first...
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Be Consistently Not Stupid
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like [Warren Buffett and myself] have gotten by trying to be consistently...
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Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing.
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Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and...
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Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice...
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It is really useful to be reminded of your errors. I think Warren Buffett and I are pretty good at...
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If you get a lot of heavy ideology young, and then you start expressing it, you are really locking your...
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Why Go to School?
If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing.
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Rapid Destruction of Your Ideas
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is...
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It’s not something you do just to advance in life.
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It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, should learn a computer language because it...
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Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know...
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Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life.
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In my whole life, I have known no wise people over a broad subject matter area who didn’t read all...
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The game is to keep learning, and I don’t think people are going to keep learning who don’t like the...
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Obviously the more hard lessons you can learn vicariously, instead of from your own terrible experiences, the better off you...
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We read a lot. I don’t know anyone who’s wise who doesn’t read a lot. But that’s not enough: You...
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Every child should learn to program a computer because it will teach you how to think.
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When you’re young, a little bit of course correction goes a long way.
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