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Charlie Munger:Munger's 1994 USC Talk, Additional Excerpt 18
Charlie Munger《A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business》· USC Business School, 1994 · Investing · Wealth · Cognition · History
For example, he gave something like 20% of CBS to the Dumont Company for a television set manufacturer which was destined to go broke. I think it lasted all of two or three years or something like that. So very soon after he'd issued all of that stock, Dumont was history. You get a lot of dysfunction in a big fat, powerful place where no one will bring unwelcome reality to the boss.
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