What is the greatest measure of success? Most would answer that it is money. However, one of the world’s richest men Warren Buffett has a different opinion. According to him, it is love, not money that measures one’s success.
Warren Buffett, who has an estimated net worth of over $116 billion, says it is not your bank balance that determines your success. According to the book “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life” by Alice Schroeder, he shared this profound thought during an interaction with students held at the University of Georgia in 2001.
At the interaction, students asked him to define success. 91-year-old Buffett said, ” “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.”
The self-made billionaire went on to say that he knows many people who are immensely rich and get hospital wings or streets named after them but are unloved in life. And, he says, “success is all about how you have lived your life.”
In his opinion, love cannot be bought with money. If you want to receive love, you should be lovable. The more you give love, the more you get, he said.
