Character matters. Legendary investor Warren Buffet points out, “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, known for his insightful investing, breaks down how to evaluate your chart of relational accounts: “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. I know many 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. That’s the ultimate test of how you have lived your life… the only way to get love is to be lovable…. The more you give love away, the more you get.”

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