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Warren Buffett Worked As Paperboy

March 26, 2012 by · Comments Off on Warren Buffett Worked As Paperboy 

Warren Buffett Worked As Paperboy, Celebrity investor and entrepreneur Warren Buffett began his illustrious career by collecting and selling lost golf balls. He also worked as a paper boy for the Washington Post.

At the age of eleven he began playing the stock market with one of his sisters, and in high school he founded a pinball machine business that earned him about fifty dollars a week. In 1956, at the age of 25, Buffett started his own investment firm, the Buffett Partnership.

His company, Berkshire Hathaway, has grown from about $8 a share when he began acquiring its stock in the 1960s to over $90,600 as of 2005 when he was ranked as the second richest man in the world. Warren Buffett is considered by many experts to be the greatest investor in American history.

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