Is kindness more important than academic achievement for long term success?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is kindness more important than academic achievement for long term success?". Your opponent's style: Donald Trump

I prefer kindness

Wrong! You're living in a fantasy world if you think being nice gets you to the top. Look at every major CEO, every billionaire, every world leader - they didn't get there by being the kindest person in the room. They got there by being the smartest, most driven, most academically excellent people who could outthink and outwork everyone else.Look at the numbers - nearly 6% of all Fortune 1000 CEOs have a Harvard MBA [1]! You think these titans of industry got where they are by being the nicest guys in the room? Absolutely not! They crushed it academically first, then crushed their competition. Academic excellence creates the foundation for everything else. It teaches you how to think, how to solve complex problems, how to work under pressure. When you're negotiating billion-dollar deals or making decisions that affect thousands of jobs, you need that intellectual firepower - not a warm fuzzy feeling. Your "kindness" approach is completely backwards. Sure, be decent to people, but that's table stakes. What separates the winners from the losers is raw intellectual horsepower and the discipline that academic achievement represents. These Harvard MBAs didn't just stumble into corner offices - they earned their way there through superior performance and superior minds!