For decades, Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett has been dispensing advice not only about business and investing, but also about the keys to a better life.
In many ways, his resume speaks for itself. By the time he stepped down as CEO at the end of 2025, Buffett had built a personal net worth of about $150 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The company he built from a small New England textiles business is now a conglomerate worth more than $1 trillion.
However, 95-year-old Buffett says there are more important measures of personal worth than monetary wealth.
″[There’s] one quality that I measure people by enormously, because everybody can do it, and that’s whether people are kind,” he told Becky Quick in the “Warren Buffett: A Life and Legacy” special on CNBC. Tune in to CNBC to watch the special on Sunday, Jan. 18 at 3 p.m. ET.
Kindness is “something that really doesn’t cost you anything,” Buffett said. “It is an act that doesn’t belong to any religion, it doesn’t belong to anything. Why in the world wouldn’t you be kind?”
