The question

What do you value most in your friends?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.

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Warren Buffett Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
Recorded His own pledge letter, written on joining the Giving Pledge in 2010, The Giving Pledge, 2010 source ↗
Abby Wambach United States international footballer, 2001–2015
I don’t care who you are on the planet. You need other people to be able to help get you where you want to go, and help get you to learn the things that you want to learn, and participate in the things you want to participate in.
Recorded Maddy Pontz, Ms. Q&A, Ms. Magazine, 6 October 2020 source ↗
It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 August 2017 source ↗
Unselfishness. I like to surround myself with people who are kind and have feelings for others and their problems.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 November 2001 source ↗

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