American businessman, famous investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett is an inspiration to many people. In his biography 'The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life', which was published in 2008, author Alice Schroeder reveals one of Buffett's greatest definition of success in life.
In the book, Schroeder writes about an incident when Buffett was giving a presentation at the University of Georgia. When he was asked by a student about his definition of success in life, Buffett replied that when one nears the end of their life then their biggest success is if they are truly loved by the number of "people you want to have love you".
“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,” Buffett said, as per the biography.
He further said, “The problem with love is that it’s not for sale... The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love. But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.”
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