You just need to change your mind-set to become successful in life

We all want to be successful in life. But the fact is attaining success is not at all easy. At the same time, we know it’s also not impossible because all of us do achieve success in one aspect of life or the other. When we fail in life, obviously there are reasons for our failure. There must be certain things which we did wrong and that lead to failure. May be, our approach to tackling the situation was not appropriate. Or our reaction to the situation was not correct.

And these are the time, we get words of wisdom from our elders, professors, seniors in office or well wisher friends that “you need to change your mind-set to be successful in life”. Then the obvious question is what is mind-set, how and when is our mind-set formed? Is mind-set so important that it decides success or failure for a person? And above all can we change our mind-sets? Let’s try to find our answers.

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Warren Buffett's investment secrets for an ordinary investor

Warren Buffett is viewed as one of the most successful investors in history. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Hathaway. He has been consistently ranked amongst the world’s wealthiest people. He has been a role model for numerous fund managers. His investment philosophies and principles can be adapted even by ordinary investors to safeguard their investments and generate decent return on their investments.

Warren Edward Buffett was born on August 30^th, 1930, in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. His father was a local stock broker. Since childhood, he was good at numbers. At the age of eight, he had started reading his father’s books on stock markets. Buffett attended the business school at the University of Nebraska. At that time, he got an opportunity to read a book on investing “The Intelligent Investor” written by Columbia Professor Benjamin Graham. He was so impressed with Benjamin Graham that he applied to Columbia Business School so that he gets an opportunity to study with Graham. After completing his graduation from Columbia with a master’s degree in economics, Buffett worked for two years in Graham’s company, the Graham-Newman Corporation.

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