Stop complaining, says billionaire investor Charlie Munger: ‘Everybody’s five times better off than they used to be’
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"I love everything about Costco. I'm a total addict, and I'm never going to sell a share" .
He named Chinese e-commerce and tech company Alibaba (BABAF) as one of his biggest investment blunders.
The objective is not to know everything but to recognize the perimeter of one's own knowledge and capability.
“We’re always looking for something where we think we have an insight that gives us a big statistical advantage,” Munger said. “Sometimes it comes from psychology, but often it comes from something else. And we only find a few, maybe one or two a year.”
One way of looking at it: “As Buffett and I say over and over again, we don’t leap seven-foot fences," Munger said. “Instead, we look for one-foot fences with big rewards on the other side. So we’ve succeeded by making the world easy for ourselves, not by solving hard problems.”
Realize that mistakes are inevitable, Munger said. “Part of what you must learn is how to handle mistakes and new facts that change the odds,” he said. “Life, in part, is like a poker game, wherein you have to learn to quit sometimes when holding a much-loved hand.”
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