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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
Financier
Investor
Shareholder
Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today.
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I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society.
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