Warren Buffett says "You have more potential than you thought you had"

“You will find 10 years from now that you had a lot more potential than you thought you had today, and you're gonna get a chance to use it in this country.” In an interview at the 2014 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett, who celebrates his 96th birthday today, said that people have far more potential than they realize. “You're not condemned to a life that was ordained by what your parents did before you,” Buffett said.