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By the age of 13, Buffett was running his own businesses as a paperboy and selling his own horseracing tip sheet...he also boought pinball machines and put them in several barber shops
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he was successful in identifying undervalued companies and became a millionaire. One such enterprise Buffett valued was a textile company named Berkshire Hathaway.
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accumulating stock in the early 1960s, and by 1965 he had assumed control of the company.
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With his first wife susan he had three loving kids
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Immensely successful, the "Oracle of Omaha" even managed to spin seemingly poor investments into gold, most notably with his purchase of scandal-plagued Salomon Brothers in 1987.
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Got hitched to his second wife astried at 76 years old
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Buffett made an announcement that he would be giving his entire fortune away to charity, committing 85 percent of it to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This donation became the largest act of charitable giving in United States history.
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Buffett has an estimated net worth of $84 billion and a loving family
