What Charlie Munger thinks about ideas vs execution

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Warren Buffett's business partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway; also chaired Wesco Financial Corporation from 1984 to 2011, where he wrote its annual letters himself.

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1. 13 May 2007

   Our readingChecklist routines avoid a lot of errors, and a checklist is the procedure that works best for putting elementary wisdom to use

   Their wordsChecklist routines avoid a lot of errors. You should have all this elementary wisdom and then you should go through and have a checklist in order to use it. There is no other procedure that will work as well.

   ↗2007 USC Law School Commencement Addressjamesclear.com 12th of 14 in this piece