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Munger on Inversion

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“Invert, always invert.”
Crediting the mathematician Carl Jacobi; Poor Charlie's Almanack

Munger repeatedly attributed the maxim to Jacobi.

“All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.”
Poor Charlie's Almanack

A favorite Munger formulation of inversion; he often presented it as a borrowed country-saying. It became the title of Peter Bevelin's 2016 book.