Warren Buffett reveals the unique education strategy he took in school—and it eventually paid off with a $170 billion fortune

• Billionaire Warren Buffett Admitted that he did not pay attention to all his classes In college – instead, he puts building connections to professors that are important. Finding “Responding Teachers” is important for success, he said at this Berkshire shareholder meeting this weekend.

With a net worth nearly $ 170 billion, Warren Buffett is one of the worldly investors worldwide. But as a young person, he will not study the star who is expected ..

The 94-year-old has become known for his advice to young investors in Gen Z Z-but it is not always necessary to focus on the exact approach to one's investment. Buffett has recently shared the wisdom of appreciating the people around you – a skill he first included with his school teachers.

“I went to three different universities and I went to high school in Washington, and in each place I found about two or three really left people,” Buffett said to Berkshire hathaway annual shareholders meeting This past Saturday. “I just spent my time with them and I didn't pay much attention to the other classes.”

Buffett first enrolled in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1940s – an Ivy League institution expressed as one of the best business schools in the world. However, he was not impressed; Two years in his studies, he moved back to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln because he wanted the view he couldn't find.

“The teachers at [Nebraska] The university opened me. There wasn't a class that failed me. I was close to my professors, who really taught classes; In my previous undergraduate college, students taught that classes graduated, ”he Remember In 2001.

While studying accounting at the University of Nebraska was something he said “important” to the rest of his career, he credited the connections developed by the master's acquisition at Columbia Business School as the resources of inspiration.

“I am interested in what they are [my professors] they say and they find that it's entertaining that I'm interested, “Buffett said last week.” So I look around what really attracts you. “

“I think that having a curiosity and finding handsome teachers is a useful,” Buffett added.

Buffett's biggest teacher is his right hand

Buffett's shareholder meetings have become one of the most close -ups in the world of investment. While Buffett broke the Internet by announcing that Greg Abel would take CEO of Berkshire Hathaway by the end of the year, he mentioned his late right hand Charlie Munger.

While the two billionaires have overlooked challenges together, Buffett said he was inspired by Munger's ongoing driving to find out.

“Charlie is not satisfied with the shallow things about any subject,” Buffett said. “He really wants to understand it and he'll always tell me that you shouldn't take a position on anything until you can describe arguments against it better than the person you are arguing about – that you should argue their case better than they can.”

Munger is a “amazing -wonderful teacher,” Buffett recalls – something he cried even though his business partner was still alive.

“Whenever I was with Charlie, I had even a few new slants in an idea that caused me to think about some things again,” Buffett told CNBC in 2016. “We've been very happy to work together in recent years.”

Buffett is the final mentor for many investors

While many Americans have no positive feelings about the billions -billions, the buffett is an exception. According to a 2023 survey from CNBCBuffett is the most popular billionaire.

Moreover, even the billions themselves are looking at the buffett for inspiration.

“Never been one like Warren, and countless people, along with myself, became inspired by his wisdom,” Apple CEO wrote Tim Cook at X. “It was one of the great privileges of my life to know him.”

At the top of being humble, his popular image is likely to be centered on his own willingness to spread his wealth and knowledge – something that something Berkshire admitted to Greg Abel has almost impossible his shoes to fill.

“I like to think Warren is truly as a teacher and I get the opportunity to continue to learn day -day,” Abel Says At the 2025 shareholder meeting. “Warren and I have a strong dialogue every week and we always talk to Berkshire opportunities or things that happen around the world or in the US.

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com