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Struggling with Consistency? Charlie Munger spent years mastering this exact challenge. This collection captures their most practical insights on Consistency, each quote backed by source context so you can trace the thinking. Whether you need immediate guidance or long-term frameworks, Charlie Munger's approach cuts through the noise and gives you actionable wisdom. Use this archive whenever you're making decisions about Consistency and need clarity from someone who's been there.
"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid."
"You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long time."
"Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification."
"A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they’ve got terrible temperaments."
"Reliability is the most important thing you can have. If you are unreliable, it doesn't matter what your virtues are."
"Being a professional means you have to be reliable. You have to be someone that other people can count on."
"It’s not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything."
"Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up."
"It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait."
"Discipline is the foundation of efficiency."
"We don’t want to be the smartest, we want to be the ones who are consistently not stupid."
"The big money is not in the buying and the selling, but in the waiting."
"Reliability is the most important quality in a partner, and in a business."
"We don’t have a process that we can name. We just try to stay as rational as we can."
"Reliability is the first thing you want in a plan. If you're not reliable, it doesn't matter how high your IQ is."
"Extreme patience combined with extreme decisiveness."
"You must have the discipline to wait for the fat pitch."
"The habit of committing to a long-term goal and sticking to it is one of the most important things in life."
"Go to bed smarter than when you woke up."
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