Always fight side by side with the most reliable people!

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Buffett said: I’m giving you the right to buy 10% of your classmate’s shares, valid until the end of his life. Which classmate’s 10% of the rest of their life would you like to buy? Would you choose the smartest one? Not necessarily. Would you choose the one with the most energy? Not necessarily. Would you choose that child of an official or a wealthy family? Not necessarily. After careful consideration, you might choose the person with whom you feel the strongest sense of affinity, the one with the greatest leadership skills, the one who can work to benefit others, the generous and honest person who is willing to give credit to others even for their own ideas. Then write down these good qualities on the left side of a piece of paper. Buffett said, \"Now I’m giving you another chance to sell 10% of a certain stock held by one of your classmates – who would you choose this time?\" Would you choose the person with the worst grades? Not necessarily. Would you choose that second-generation poor person? Not necessarily. After careful consideration, you might choose the most annoying person – not only do you dislike him, but others do as well; no one wants to have anything to do with him. Because this person is dishonest, selfish, prone to using schemes and tricks, likes to speak ill of others behind their backs, and enjoys abandoning those who rely on them, etc. Then write these bad qualities on the right side of that paper. If you look closely at both sides of this paper, you’ll realize that it doesn’t matter whether one has strong abilities or not, nor does it matter if they’re beautiful; no one cares about academic performance at all. All those truly useful qualities in the left column are things you can achieve; as long as you are willing to take action, you can possess these qualities. And none of those bad habits are impossible to change; as long as you have the determination, you can definitely overcome them. If you can do what is written in the left column and abandon those things in the right column, you will become someone whom everyone is willing to buy 10% of from; even better, you will end up owning 100% of yourself. I mentioned this story above because something very interesting happened right around me. My friend T met a few people who work in game development; they created a game and planned to start their own company to manage it, but due to a lack of funding, they spent half a year trying to find investors without success. So, I invited Mr. T to join in, aiming to find investors together. Relying on his extensive network built over the years, Mr. T quickly found a large investment firm willing to provide funding. Actually, this project is not large; its total scale is only a few million. It’s a very small project for that investment group. However, they have no experience in developing games, so they decided to give it a try first. But those people realized that since an investor had been found, Mr. T was no longer needed, so why give him shares? So they kicked Mr. T out and prepared to sign the contract on their own. As an investor, would you dare to sign such a contract? What investors fear is constant changes. You kicked the middleman out at the last moment, intending to keep everything for yourself – if you can do that, you’ll be able to do other things as well. Since you’re unreliable, it doesn’t matter how much ability or skill you actually have, because we certainly won’t work with you anyway. Investing actually means investing in people and teams; reliability is the most important factor, followed by professional skills. If one’s skills aren’t good enough, one can pay to hire someone more skilled; but if that person is unreliable, then there’s really no solution. When I was young, I loved reading stories about the Three Kingdoms. As almost everyone knows, the most skilled warrior among them was Lü Bu. There is a saying: Among men, there is Lü Bu; among horses, there is the Red Hare. But it was Guan Yu, not Lü Bu, who was later called the Martial Saint. Because Guan Yu possessed the two most important qualities for a warrior: loyalty and integrity, while Lu Bu was a lackey who would side with whoever held more power. They were both captured by Cao Cao. Lu Bu had originally intended to ask Liu Bei for intervention, but Liu Bei said, “Don’t you remember what happened with Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo?” ”So Cao Cao killed Lü Bu. After Guan Yu surrendered, Cao Cao invested heavily in him, and Guan Yu repaid this kindness by first killing Yan Liang and Wen Chou and lifting the siege of Baima, and later releasing Cao Cao at Huarong Road. Cao Cao’s investment yielded great returns. If Cao Cao were an investor, he would definitely be a top-tier PE investor, as he knows how to assess people. Integrity is not only a virtue, but also a responsibility ； It is not only a moral principle, but also a set of guidelines ； It is not just a reputation, but also a resource. Personally, integrity is a noble quality of character and the foundation for mutual trust among people. A reliable person is often more likely to earn trust and respect. Source: Internet