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You should read his whole bio.




Don't get me wrong, I like him, he's a quick wit, it's just not true that he started with nothing, he started with a lot.

Better late than never, I don’t know if you’ll see this. He started investing well before people started giving him money. Like, decades.

Wikipedia page on Buffett:

At 11, he bought three shares of Cities Service Preferred for himself, and three for his sister Doris Buffett (who also became a philanthropist).[20][21][22] At 15, Warren made more than $175 monthly (equivalent to $3,057 in 2024) delivering Washington Post newspapers. In high school, he invested in a business owned by his father and bought a 40-acre farm worked by a tenant farmer.[23] He bought the land when he was 14 years old with $1,200 (equivalent to $21,434 in 2024) of his savings.[23] By the time he graduated from college, Buffett had amassed $9,800 in savings (equivalent to $129,511 in 2024).[18]




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