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How to Feel Secure

“The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be...

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How to Overcome Insecurities

“The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be...

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Why It’s Imperative to Stretch Your Mind

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Formal vs. Self-education

Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.

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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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Your Most Valuable Assets

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets and can be lost in a heartbeat.

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Repetition in Learning

Repetition is the heart of instruction.

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Charlie Munger quote The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained

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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Don’t Be Idiotic

People are trying to be smart. All I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it’s harder...

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Smarter Earlier

Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better.

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Charlie Munger quote I met the towering intellectuals in books, not in the classroom, which is natural

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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Master a Single Area

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources...

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The Power of Decision

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part...

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Make Change Lasting

For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.

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An Afternoon with Socrates

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

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I Would Have Been in Jail

I know from my own education that if I hadn’t encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with...

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Warren Buffett’s Discipline

Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing.

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Getting What You Deserve

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and...

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Follow Your Heart and Intuition

Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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Expand Your Horizons

I started to listen to music a whole lot and I started to read more outside of just science and...

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Great Writings

Read something written by someone great.

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You Don’t Need Perfect Wisdom

You don’t have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich — just a bit better than average over a...

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Who Do You Want To Be?

Dress like the person you want to be.

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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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Learning and Knowing

Learn more and know more.

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Wisdom Acquisition is a Moral Duty

Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It’s not something you do just to advance in life.

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You Need Curiosity

If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won’t do it — you need a...

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How to Keep Rising in Life

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life.

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Character-Building Losses

I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.

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Billions of Dollars from a $30 Book

There is no better teacher than history in determining the future. There are answers worth billions of dollars in a...

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Keep Learning

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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Reading a Lot

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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