A 24-year-old entrepreneur invited billionaire Warren Buffet to have dinner with her. He turned her down, but he didn’t totally reject her. Instead of joining her for dinner he gave her something far more valuable: three solid pieces of advice.
“I saw my opportunity and I just had to take it,” Gong told CNBC Make It at Money 20/20 in Singapore.
Gong, now the co-founder and CEO of WafaGames, didn’t get to have that dinner with Buffet, but she didn’t come away empty-handed. Buffet did spend an hour with her, having a drink, and offered her three pieces of advice.
1. Before you go to sleep each night, ask yourself: Are you smarter, have you learnt something new?
2. Always pick up the phone. In life there will be so many things you want to run away from, but you should always confront them head on.
3. Be humble, no matter how high you rise.Considering the fact that Gong, now 31, was named one of MIT’s 2017 35 Innovators under 35 it looks like she took Buffet’s advice to heart.
“Sometimes I have to ask myself if I still have that courage of my 24-year-old self,” Gong told CNBC’s Make It. “I have to remind myself of that Warren Buffett moment.”
(BroBible.com)
