MELINDA GATES  SHARES KEY LIFE LESSON

Billionaire and philanthropist Melinda French Gates is the co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and founder of Pivotal Ventures. She is also a former manager at Microsoft. 

Gates recently spoke at Stanford University's 2024 Commencement and shared an important lesson she learnt from the late Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's longtime business partner.

Here's what Gates said: 

Gates said, "Charlie famously said that the highest form which civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust. Totally reliable, correctly trusting each other." She added, "What a thing to aspire to be." 

Gates said that people today aren't used to feeling a sense of responsibility for each other. She said, "But we need each other. No matter who you are, there will be moments in your journey when you need to be carried or when someone else will need you to carry them." 

Gates urged students in the audience to build strong bonds with each other, even if they disagree on certain issues. She said that it's the job of the students to now rebuild a "broken" world.