What Does Warren Buffett Look For in an Employee?
“You look for three things: you look for intelligence, you look for energy,
and you look for integrity,” Buffett indicated in the interview with the alumni publication for the University of Nebraska at Lincoln’s College of Business Administration, where he earned a degree.
And while the tenets of intelligence, energy, and integrity likely hold true as valuable traits in employees across a range
of industries, his own role in crafting Berkshire Hathaway into the behemoth that it is today cannot be understated.
A) Still, the billionaire investor who is hailed as the “Oracle of Omaha” for his prowess remains actively involved with the central decisions of the company
that he transformed into one of the largest and most successful in the world.
“A student [of college age] can pretty much decide what kind a person they are going to be at 60,” Buffett explains.
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At 87 years old, Warren Buffett no longer occupies himself with much of the day-to-day business of running Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.
“Usually it is because they are generous, decent, kind people, and those are the kind of people to emulate.”
He explains that “every business student you have has the requisite intelligence and requisite energy.
Someone in the business world who does not display integrity may be saddled with a
poor reputation as a deceitful individual or as someone who is too self-serving.
Still, Buffett’s list of criteria by which he judges potential candidates applying for jobs with Berkshire Hathaway has remained steadfast.