Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmit.onlineEnglish · 26 days agoTIL At age 15, Warren Buffett used $1,200 he’d saved from selling Coke bottles, magazines, and delivering newspapers to buy a 40-acre farm in Nebraska.www.architecturaldigest.comexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL At age 15, Warren Buffett used $1,200 he’d saved from selling Coke bottles, magazines, and delivering newspapers to buy a 40-acre farm in Nebraska.www.architecturaldigest.comLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmit.onlineEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square1linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-square667linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoIts admirable, and I’ve always had a positive respect for Warren Buffet, but in context things were vastly different in 1945, when he was 15. Adjusted for inflation, his $1,500 savings and investment is approximately equivalent to $26,880 today:
Its admirable, and I’ve always had a positive respect for Warren Buffet, but in context things were vastly different in 1945, when he was 15.
Adjusted for inflation, his $1,500 savings and investment is approximately equivalent to $26,880 today: