From a Wall Street Journal story by Chip Cutter headlined “Buffett and Munger on Success, Toxicity and Elon Musk”:

The question was a philosophical one: How should you avoid major mistakes in business and life?

Warren Buffett, the 92-year-old chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway paused briefly.

“You should write your obituary and then try to figure out how to live up to it,” Mr. Buffett said. “It’s not that complicated.”