Qualities for success

Think for a moment that I granted you the right to buy 10 percent of one of your classmates for the rest of his or her lifetime.… Which one are you going to pick? … Pick the one with the highest IQ? I doubt it. Are you going to pick the one with the best grades? I doubt it. You’re not even going to pick the most energetic one necessarily or the one that displays initiative, but you’re going to start looking for qualitative factors in addition, because everyone has enough brain power and energy…. You’d probably pick the one who you responded the best to. The one that was going to have the leadership qualities. The one that was going to be able to get other people to carry out their interests. That would be the person who was generous and honest, and who gave credit to other people even for their own ideas.