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Warren Buffett is liked to success as a material savvy and a self-made billionaire.
94-year-old businessman, those who want to imitate the investor and philanthropist They should pay attention to the person they marry.
Buffett said over a period of time 2017 chat with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates He lends a loan to his wife’s choice by successful.
“You want to communicate with people who want to be. You will move in this direction,” Buffett said. “And in this regard, the most important person is your spouse. I can’t get over the importantly how important it is.”
And his key to find the right person to get married There are many things with beauty, character or sense of humor.
“If you want a latter marriage, look for expectations low expectations,” he said. Buffett said Fortune comb 2015 the strongest women’s peak.
Buffett is a rich person from the world and is about $ 152 billion Bloomberg. Co-founder, chairman and CEO Berkshire Hathaway He announced his retirement in May and Greg Abel called His heir. In 1952, he married Susan Buffett and had three children with him: Susie, Howard and Peter. Susan, in 2004, died after a 72-year-old brain hemorrhage.
Buffett married two years after Susa’s death Astrid MisksThose who are friends for a long time with buff badges. Susan was still quite close friends when all three were close friends and even Roger Lowenstein’s 2008 book “Warren, Susie and Astrid” sent Christmas cards BUFFETT: Making the American capitalist.
“Warren, at a time, the gateway and therapist, the goddess of sexual goddess, sexual acceptance, he said, he said that the claws of his conservative mother left him Forbes Working works. “For a married woman, a money and extraordinary amount received” freedom. ”
Even with some non-traditional family history, Buffett shared the wisdom related to love over the years.
Below are three recommendations given about love.
Choose the right person to marry
In the 2017 documentary of HBO “Be the Warren Buffett“The legend of the investment said that in his life. First, when he came out of the womb, the second was when he met Susan.
“What happened with me would not happen without it.”
Buffett also emphasizes that Susan is married to the “true person”.
“Marriage with the right person. I’m seriously approached by it,” he said in 2009 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting. “This will make more difference in your life. It will change your wishes, all kinds of things.”
For a permanent marriage – not happy
Go against the word “Happy wife, Happy Life”, Buffett both personal and professional relations are inferior.
“If you will marry and if you want a ongoing marriage“He said during that time University lecture. “What quality are you looking for in a spouse? A quality. Looking for brains? Humor Looking for? Looking for a character? Looking for beauty?”
“No,” Buffett said. “Not necessarily The happiest marriage– One of Martha Stewart to speak. You want a marital ongoing. ”
Marriage before money
Even with everyone in the world, the Buffett, the Buffett, said that the money is not the best thing.
“To be given unconditional love, the biggest benefit you can ever get,” he said. 2008 Talk.
This unconditional love from his wife Susan is what motivates it.
“Something incredible about love, you can’t get rid of it,” he said, during the 2008 conversation. “If you try to give up, you understand twice more, but you try to catch him. It disappears. He just completely pushes him back.
Although the money can get a lot, it can’t get love.
“Love problem, not for sale” Buffett Georgian students told University The only way of love in 2001. If you have a lot of money, it is very irritating. Would you like to think that you can write a check: I’ll buy something worth a million dollars. But you give so much. ”
A version of this story first published Fortune.com On February 14, 2024.
