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Warren Buffett  Edward Buffett was born on August 30, 1930, in Omaha, Nebraska, during the Great Depression. The son of a stockbroker and congressman, Howard Buffett, Warren displayed a prodigious talent for numbers and business from an extraordinarily young age. He filed his first tax return at age 13, claiming a bicycle as a business deduction for his newspaper delivery route. By 11, he had purchased his first stock (three shares of Cities Service Preferred) and learned a lifelong lesson about patience after selling too early. He read Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor” at 19, which became the philosophical bedrock of his investment career. After being rejected from Harvard Business School, he attended Columbia Business School to study directly under Graham.Warren Buffett Building Berkshire Hathaway: From Textile Mill to Conglomerate Buffett’s journey with the company that would make him famous began unpromisingly. In 1962, he started buying shares of Berkshire Hathaway,…

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