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Avoiding mistakes in business and life comes down a few simple things, according to billionaire investor Charlie Munger, who died last week at age 99: good financial habits, integrity and “avoiding toxic people and toxic activities.” Munger shared the advice during a Q&A session at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting in May. An investing icon

High schools have been buzzing about financial education. The latest “report card” from the Center for Financial Literacy at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, shows seven states — Alabama, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia — made the top grade. They earned an “A” because in those states, high school graduates in the class

In this photo illustration, British billionaire Richard Branson is seen on a fragment of a Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Spaceflight Livestream Youtube video displayed on a smartphone with the Virgin Galactic logo in the background. Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Virgin Galactic shares plunged more than 14% in premarket trade on Monday, after

Charlie Munger, who died at age 99 last week, attributed his success and longevity at least partially to a single piece of advice: “Avoid crazy at all costs.” That’s what he told CNBC’s Becky Quick last month, in an interview meant to air on his 100th birthday in January. Munger was known as the longtime

Career changes can be hard, even for Bill Gates — who credits a simple, lifelong habit for his switch from a narrow-minded, decades-long focus on computers and software to international philanthropy. “I had a long period from about age 18 to 40 where I was very monomaniacal … Microsoft was everything,” Gates, 68, recently told