Warren Buffett's View On Success

I know there are so many posts about Warren Buffett, but I thought this was a good one. Serves as a good reminder that money really isn't everything.


In Alice Schroeder's biography of Buffett, "The Snowball," she writes about a time when Buffett was addressing students at Georgia Tech. Someone asked him about his greatest success and he responded, "Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

"I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them," he continued. "But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Is this in line with your view of success?

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Buffett's View On Success

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