"Your best asset is your own self" · Transcript · BuffettMungerGPT

WarrenAnything your students do to invest in their mind and body, particularly your mind, we didn't work too hard on the bodies around here, but, you know, it pays off in an extraordinary way. Your best asset is your own self. And you can become, to an enormous degree, the person you want to be. When I get classes in universities, I just ask them to imagine they were going to buy one of their classes. classmates to own 10% up for the rest of their life. Which one would they pick? They wouldn't pick the one with the highest IQ or necessarily the one with the highest grades. They pick the person that's going to be effective. And the reason people are effective is because other people want to work with them. They want to be around them. And other people they don't want to be around. And those are qualities that an individual picks up, being generous, being humorous, being on time, doing, not claiming credit for more than you do, but rather than less than you're helping out other people. all kinds of human qualities that turn other people on, and then there's things to turn on people off. And those are habits, and they're the habits that you pick up when they're the age of your students. The habits they have today will follow them throughout life, so why not have good ones? So that's the only message I would give your students.