“That's the ultimate test of how you have lived your life. The trouble with love is that you can't buy it….The only way to get love is to be lovable….The more you give love away, the more you get.”

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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.

Tagged: Love, Success, Money, Wisdom

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