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One of the last articles that Charlie Munger wrote was titled,

These Basic Rules made me successful in life.

Charlie, as you probably know, is Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, and Warren Buffett's closest

business partner and right-hand ma'am.

The piece talked about how he met Buffett accidentally at a dinner party and why he decided

to leave his own firm and go into business with Warren.

Charlie's three rules not only shaped his journey with Warren,

but it can reshape ours as well.

I'll pass them on to you here this morning.

Number one, don't sell anything you wouldn't buy yourself. It's such a simple

idea. It's the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world only what you would buy if you were on the other end. This has always been essential for me. I actually cannot sell what I don't wholeheartedly believe in. I am effective at influencing people to make decisions and take action

only because I am communicating from a deep down conviction that I know it will

help them. If I didn't believe it, I actually couldn't do it.

As effective as I am about talking about what I believe in, I am wretched at talking about what I don't believe in. I'm wretched about faking it,

BSing, or bluffing. It's why I cannot even play poker. No joke, my tell is my entire

body reeks and my face screams BS.

The first television subscriber network that I built was sold to another company.

The acquiring company wanted to use the network to support and promote something I didn't really believe it.

It wasn't nefarious, but it was against everything that I believed in.

And if I had just shut my mouth, drifted into the background, and just showed up to the conferences and set a few words

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