Warren Buffett: '3 things I look for in an employee'

Warren Buffett bought his first stock at aged 11 and by aged 17, he made $53,000. The legendary investor, business magnate and philanthropist, worth $80billion, now aged 87, has plenty of wisdom to offer when it comes to identifying and hiring the right employees.  

The Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Hathaway - a conglomerate which owns more than 60 companies - told Nebraska Business magazine that he looks for three things: “You look for intelligence, you look for energy and you look for integrity.”

However, for Buffet, the most important trait is integrity, which can be cultivated. "Every business student you have has the requisite intelligence and requisite energy," he says. "Integrity is not hard-wired into your DNA.

"A student [of college age] can pretty much decide what kind a person they are going to be at 60," Buffett says. "If they don't have integrity [now], they never will. The chains of habit are sometimes too heavy to be broken. Students can forge their own chains.”