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What lesson has mattered most in your life?Originally asked
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Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
The number one rule I give them is just not give them the golden rule. Do unto others, I'm not a religious guy, but, I mean, nobody said it any better in a couple thousand years than that, which may be why it's lasted to a certain degree too. I mean, more people are reading a 2000-year-old book about how to behave than anything that anybody's coming up with lately. Now it's got a lot of, particularly the Old Testament, it's got different kinds of stories, to some extent, but if the whole world lived by the golden rule, it would be such a more wonderful society.
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Never ever think that things are going to turn out all right.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
English actor
To do the very best you can and then let it go.
Shinya Yamanaka
Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
So I think failure is important in my career.
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