Life advice from Warren Buffet

If you listen to one of many Warren Buffet’s speeches on the success, you will learn invaluable lessons. In one of the many Buffet’s appearances, he says that success is more than pure intellect or energy. Accordingly, Buffet believes that integrity is the mother of all qualities, and any man can develop it. Indeed, he let us play a little game:

let’s think for a moment that you have the right to buy 10% of one of your classmates for the rest of his/her life, and you had an hour to think about it. What are you going to do? Are you going to have your friends take an IQ test?

Warren Buffet doubts it.

Are you going to pick the one with the best grades?

He doubts it too. According to Warren Buffet, you would pick the one who is humble, who gives credits, who is altruist… In few words the one who shows good leadership qualities. Then, Warren Buffet makes us assume the opposite scenario:

Imagine you had to go short 10% on someone in your class (it means you would make money if your friend fails in life). Who would you pick? Would you pick the person with the lowest IQ? Or the person with the lowest grades?

Again, Warren Buffet doubts it. He believes you would choose the person who turns you off the most; the dishonest person, the one who cuts corners, who does not give credits to others. In few words, Warren Buffet message is:

It doesn’t matter how smart you are, what is your IQ score, if you lack leadership skills you won’t be successful in life and therefore, in business