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“The best minds have been dead for a long time.” “So there’s no reason to look only for living role models. The eminent dead are some of the best models around.” - Charlie Munger. 2000

In 2013, Nassim Taleb gave a 53-min Stanford masterclass on why chaos makes some businesses stronger. His ideas: - The coffee cup that survives 4 million hits - Why helicopter engineers ride their own machines - The country where nobody knows the president 12 lessons on risk:

A lecture from MIT on portfolio construction and risk

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"It's waiting that helps you as an investor and a lot of people just can't stand to wait. If you didn't get the deferred -gratification gene, you've got to work very hard to overcome that." -Charlie Munger

Charlie Munger: “It isn't that we were so good at doing things that were difficult. We were good at avoiding things that were difficult — and finding things that are easy.”

“All intelligent people should think primarily in terms of opportunity cost. When deciding whether to do something compare it with the best opportunity you have.” — Charlie Munger

Warren Buffett: “90% of the people that buy stocks don't think of them the right way. They think about them as something they hope goes up next week.” “I think about what the company is going to be worth 10–20 years from now.”

Warren Buffett gets asked the question "why doesn't everyone do what you do?" His response is simple and profound:

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Warren Buffett: “The stock market is the most obliging, money-making place in the world. Because you don’t have to [trade. You can wait for a good deal.]… It’s a marvelous game. The rules are stacked in your favor.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "you should study risk taking, not risk management"

“Avoid people who are full of self-pity, and people who feel like victims. Avoid them like the plague.” “Avoid the crooks, crazies, egomaniacs, people full of resentment.” - Charlie Munger

Charlie Munger: “You climb as [high] as you can by just advancing one inch at a time. That's the secret of life.” “There is no more guaranteed way to make people hate you than to fail them in their reasonable expectations.”

Nobumichi Akashi’s Yasuyo Building, completed in 1969.

"Given a 10% chance of a 100 times payoff, you should take that bet every time." — Jeff Bezos