Quotes by Trying I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer. Charlie Kaufman tryingjobsthinking We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live. Charlie LeDuff be-goodborntrying I think we're out on a limb right now, hanging over a cliff, and we're trying to find a way to get back. Charlie Manuel tryingwaythinking When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it. Charlie McCreevy havensmistaketrying How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it. Charlie Munger moatsfanaticstrying Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Charlie Munger errorsmistaketrying I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge. Charlie Munger realtryingpeople The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much. Charlie Munger gamestryingpeople A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance -- checks and doublechecks and so forth -- you could create a better result in the world. Well, Berkshire has had practically no process. We had hardly any internal auditing until they forced it on us. We just try to operate in a seamless web of deserved trust and be careful whom we trust. Charlie Munger tryingpeoplethinking Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is sinful to do this. If it's a sin, then I hope all of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries are sinners. Someone whose salary is paid by U.S.taxpayers is happy to dramatically weaken the one place where we're winning big?! Charlie Munger winningtryingyears Trying to prioritize among things we're unlikely to do is pretty fruitless. Charlie Munger unlikelyprioritizetrying Let me know what your problem is, and I will try to make it more difficult for you. Charlie Munger difficultproblemtrying Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.... You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. Charlie Munger togethertryingschool It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go. Charlie Munger miracledumbtrying We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. Charlie Munger esotericremembertrying I got at a very early age, the idea that the safest way to try and get what you want, is to try and deserve what you want. Charlie Munger simpletryingideas Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Charlie Munger slugsinvestingtrying To atone, I teach and try to set an example... I love spreading this stuff around. Just because it's trite doesn't mean it isn't right. In fact, I like to say, 'If it's trite, it's right.' Charlie Munger exampletryingmean Financial institutions make us nervous when they're trying to do well. Charlie Munger nervousfinancialtrying It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible. Charlie Parker bandplaytrying«130131132133134135136137138139140»
