If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet. - Charlie Munger

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I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.

Charlie Munger

If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.

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Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome

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

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Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

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Move only when you have an advantage. It's very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.

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'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.

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Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.

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