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Having a Passionate Interest

You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods,...

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Focus

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Buying Lots of Things

We tend to buy things — a lot of things — where we don’t know exactly what will happen, but...

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Investing

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Take Me or Leave Me

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

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Witty

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Charlie Munger quote You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies

Different Checklists and Mental Models

You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies. I can never make it easy by saying,...

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Mental Models

Write Your Own Story

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

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Living a Happy Life

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

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What Is Creativity?

Creativity is just connecting things.

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Don’t Waste Time

The most important thing I discovered a few days after turning 65 is that I can’t waste any more time...

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James Clear quote Good things happen to me for no apparent reason.

Believe That Good Things Happen to You

“Good things happen to me for no apparent reason.” —James Clear

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Dampen Investment Expectations

One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature...

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Investing

Love Many Things

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and...

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The Best Must Be Felt

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with...

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Art
Love

Built from the Heart

One of the things that made Apple great was that, in the early days, it was built from the heart.

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Betting on Sure Things

Berkshire in its history has made money betting on sure things.

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Investing

What You’re Not Going to Do

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.

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Focus

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Do a Very Few Things Right

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too...

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Your Choices in Life

In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we’ve chosen to do this, so...

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Tony Robbins quote Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

You Assign the Meaning

“Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.” —Tony Robbins

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Meaning

Steve Jobs Quote: Things don't have to change the world to be important

Will It Change the World?

But it’s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light — that it’s going to change everything....

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Where Are All the Funny Things?

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

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Rhyme
Witty

Designing a Product

Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain, these concepts and fitting them all together in kind...

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The Power of Compound Return

Understanding both the power of compound return and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding...

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Investing

Products to Change the World

The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the...

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Buy When There’s Blood in the Streets

We have a history when things are really horrible of wading in when no one else will.

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Investing

Saying No to 1,000 Things

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or...

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Develop Good Mental Habits

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

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Life's Rules

Stop Buying Stuff

I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.

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In, Out, or Too Tough

There are a lot of things we pass on. We have three baskets: in, out, and too tough.

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Investing

Things Aren’t Random

But I believe life is an intelligent thing, that things aren’t random.

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Life

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Your Internal Compass

You ought to have an internal compass. So there should be all kinds of things you won’t do even though...

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Focus

Your Most Precious Resource

Well, my favorite things in life are books, sushi and My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s...

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A Passion for Simplicity

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

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Taking LSD

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.

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Self Actualization

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Make the Best Things in the World

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

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Concentrate on What’s Important

We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on...

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Be Proud of What You Haven’t Done

I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying...

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Great Things in Business

Great things in business are never done by one person; they are done by a team of people.

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Know What You’re Best At

What I’m best at doing is finding a group of talented people and making things with them.

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Smart People Do Dumb Things

Smart people do dumb things.

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Life Lessons

Doers vs. Thinkers

The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the...

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Tax Code Advantage

The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with.

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Investing

Hit in the Head with a Brick

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that...

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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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Our Biggest Mistakes

Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn’t do, companies we didn’t buy.

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Being Smart vs. Doing Something

Being smart and doing something that no one has done before are two different things.

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Achievement

Staying on the Same Page

On meetings: We don’t have a lot of process at Apple, but that’s one of the few things we do...

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