“I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. 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.”
About This Quote
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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