Well, luckily I had the idea at a very early age that the safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. - Charlie Munger

The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

"The reason we avoid the word "synergy" is because people generally claim more synergistic benefits than will come. Yes, it exists, but there are so many false promises. Berkshire is full of synergies - we don't avoid synergies, just claims of synergies."

No man’s life should be accounted a happy one until it is over.

Or, in his own words: “What I’m against is being very confident and feeling that you know, for sure, that your particular action will do more good than harm. You’re dealing with highly complex systems wherein everything is interacting with everything else.