Charlie Munger on Delayed Gratification:
I've also got the money-sense gene. The first 13 years I practiced law, my income from practicing law was $300,000 total.
At the end of that 13 years, what did I have?
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A house. Two cars. And $300,000 of liquid assets. Everyone else'd have spent that slender income, not invested it shrewdly, and so forth.
I just think it was, to me, it was as natural as breathing, and of course I knew how compound interest worked!
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I knew when I saved $10 I was really saving $100 or $1,000 ,because of the future growth of the $10.
It just took a little wait. And when I quit law practice it was because I wanted to work for myself instead of my clients, because I knew I could do better than they did.
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You only get a few opportunities, and you have to grab them aggressively when they come because even in the most favored life, they're really rare.
I always feel that the opportunities are rare. I only get a few and then I have to seize them aggressively.
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Now that lesson I just talked about, it is taught in no business school I know of. But…everybody who has any sense ought to know [that] at the start of life, and practically nobody does.
I just described reality the way it really is.
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