Buffett: If you copy the right people, you will be 'off to a great start about living your life'

Jeff Rober from Tulsa Oklahoma and I'm thinking about Dr. Graham Mr. Monger,

your

father and my question is for all of us, but it's probably especially for the younger ones in the room, uh, the importance of choosing the

right

heroes in

life

, choose friends wisely and maybe tell us a story, if you could, about each of those

people

, thank you sir, well there's no doubt you're absolutely

right

in terms of having the right heroes and you know you're lucky if gets them. I mean, Charlie had Charlie Hadam. I had him and the interesting thing is that my sister is here today, my younger sister, with the two survivors, and we both experienced having the same hero, although as we grew up we saw that we did not.

We agree with many of his ideas, but we agree with his values ​​and motivation, and that is a better lesson than having someone read you a catechism that has a lot of rules that are pretty good rules, but there is a special place for someone who

will

continue to love you even if you break some of the rules and that's what Charlie had in his

life

, it was what Bernie and I had in our life, so I would just repeat what you said. I don't need to tell you a lot of things, well, when I ran away from home.

I'll give you a specific example with me. When I ran away from home and went and we moved to Hershey Pennsylvania and I got pulled over by the state police and everything and I convinced these other two guys and we lied like crazy to the state police, you know, saying we had our parents' permission, some, some children in the place where we stayed. We let them know that we had run away from home and we

start

ed like I said when the state police picked us up we decided two things, you know, we decided to tell them a bunch of lies about the fact that we had our parents' permission and We decided that it would be better to get out of Pery because these cops were going to find out sooner or later and anyway, we ended up back in Washington after a couple of days and when I walked in the door, well, one of the kids' mother and this other kid was Congressman Roger Bell and his mother was in the hospital because of this whole thing.

He had taken her cash out of her savings bonds, so she was sick and Judge Bell, her husband was very worried and everything, and I walked in the door. in Washington and my mother said how come he came back so soon and my father said he said I know you can do better and uh and uh I just paid more attention to my father than my mother and uh so you want to have the right Heroes and you don't have than to have them, they're not the heroes based on what they've accomplished and they're the

people

you want to be

your

self and, uh, if you

copy

the right ones.

People you are off to a

great

start

and I don't mean a

great

start to making money but a great start to

living

your life so you can check with my sister birie use here and see if I have told the story correctly. She ran away from home too by the way, but she didn't make it as far as I did, but she was running away to go to my grandfather's house, which was about 2 miles away and uh, but I don't want to put her down. running away skills because she's way more accomplished than me and all sorts of other things, but when it comes to running away, I'll definitely, uh, be nicer.