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Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway´s visionary vice chairman and Warren Buffett´s indispensable financial partner, has outperformed market indexes again and again, and he believes any investor can do the same. His notion of "elementary, worldly wisdom" - a set of interdisciplinary mental models involving economics, business, psychology, ethics, and management - allows him to keep his emotions out of his investments and avoid the common pitfalls of bad judgment.

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Charlie Munger is, arguably, the world´s best investor. His ´worldly wisdom´ - a latticework of understanding separate disciplines - is a powerful way to achieve superior investment results. Without it, success in the market - or anywhere else - is a short-lived fluke. Robert Hagstrom, author of The Warren Buffett Way and Investing: The Last Liberal Art

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Tren Griffin works at Microsoft. Previously, he was a partner at Eagle River, a private equity firm controlled by Craig McCaw, with investments in the telecommunication and software industries, including McCaw Cellular, Nextel, Nextel Partners, XO Communications, Teledesic, and many start-up firms. His early career included five years working and living as a business consultant in Korea and Australia. Tren blogs about investing and other topics at 25iq.com. He is the author of The Global Negotiator: Building Strong Business Relationships Anywhere in the World; Korea, The Tiger Economy; Taiwan´s Economy; Ah Mo: Legends from the Northwest; and More Ah Mo.

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