The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard. I always pose it this way, I say: “Lookit. Would you rather be the world’s greatest lover, but have everyone think you’re the world’s worst lover? Or would you rather be the world’s worst lover but have everyone think you’re the world’s greatest lover?”
Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), from “Warren Buffett”s Management Secrets” (2009), Quotations book 2015