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Marcus Aurelius spent much of his reign as Emperor fighting on Rome’s northern frontier while a plague moved through the empire. During those years, he kept a private journal, written…

Ask most people why the rich keep getting richer, and you’ll hear about hard work, smarts, or luck. Those things matter some. The bigger story is the economic plumbing. Money…

Charlie Munger spent decades as Warren Buffett’s business partner at Berkshire Hathaway. For a man so admired for winning, he had an odd habit of thinking hard about losing. He…

Money habits get passed down at the kitchen table long before anyone opens a brokerage account. Kids absorb how their parents talk about bills, jobs, and risk, and those lessons…

Talent helps. So does luck, and so does knowing the right people at the right time, but none of it lasts long without self-control. The ability to govern your impulses…

Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire for nearly two decades, and his most enduring work was a private notebook he never intended to publish. In Meditations, he kept coming back…

Most people think financial freedom requires a big salary or a lucky stock pick. It doesn’t. The whole thing runs on a few equations you probably learned how to do…

Charlie Munger lived to 99 and spent most of those years studying why smart people wreck their own lives. He didn’t think the cause was usually a lack of brains.…

Charlie Munger spent decades studying why smart people make terrible decisions. He had a front-row seat to Warren Buffett’s decision-making as his partner at Berkshire Hathaway. His famous talk on…

Charlie Munger spent nearly a century sharpening one of the clearest minds in American business. He served as Warren Buffett’s partner and vice chairman at Berkshire Hathaway for decades, and…