Author of quotes: Charlie Munger

Nervous due to the fact that someone earns faster than you, is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a stupid sin because it is the only one from which you will never be joy. A lot of suffering and nothing pleasant. Who needs it?

If you think that some situation or some person is ruining your life, actually you do it yourself... to Go through life feeling like a victim - a pretty awful way to live this life. It is much better to take a position in which, no matter how bad you may be, you always blame yourself, and try to rectify the situation according to their possibilities. Such is the iron principle.

Self-pity is always counterproductive. This is the wrong way of thinking. And if you manage to avoid it, you will immediately get a huge advantage over all others because self-pity is the reaction of most people by default. And you can wean from it.

Self-pity can get almost to paranoia. And paranoia is one of the most trudnoizlechimykh things. Do not sink into self-pity

If you want to have miserabely life, marry someone with the intention of him or her to change.

You need a mental model. And the whole varied experience of his life you will have to mounted on the bars of these mental models. You will find that some just learn it all by heart. Well, these people fail in their studies and achieve nothing in life.

All my life I constantly imagined of any likely problems... And I did not upset: I was anticipating problems, and when they did arise, were ready for their solution.

You don't need brilliant achievements, be only average a little smarter than others and remain so for a long, long time.

First of all I would like to know where I will die - never to visit this place.

If you do not solve the problem, and wait until, until it becomes unsolvable, then do so like an idiot, what your problem is justified.