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.

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Citing Alice Schroeder's biography of Buffett, "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life," where she writes about a time Buffett was addressing students at Georgia Tech. They asked him about his greatest success and greatest failure, and this was his response.

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