Buffett credits his stockbroker father and America's bull market for his success. The 95-year-old investor says he's 'one of the 10 luckiest' people on Earth.
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Warren Buffett said he may be one of the 10 luckiest people on Earth. The Berkshire Hathaway chairman made the comment during a rare interview aired by CNBC on Wednesday.
"Out of eight billion people, I may be one of the 10 luckiest in the world," Buffett said. He credited his longevity – he is 95 – and his health. "I'm losing marbles at this point," he joked. "I accumulated marbles for a longer time than I deserved, and that's just a matter of luck."
Buffett said the field he excels at – investing – happens to pay far better than most. If he had been a "great violin player or anything else," he would not have built a net worth approaching $150 billion, even after giving away more than half of his Berkshire stock.
The investor pointed to his father, a stockbroker, for early exposure to finance. "If my father had been a plumber," Buffett said, "I would not have had the same advantage I had."
Buffett transformed a failing textile mill into a $1 trillion conglomerate. Between 1965 and 2025, Berkshire's stock compounded at nearly 20% annually, roughly doubling the S&P 500's gain. He attributed much of that to the U.S. market's long bull run. "America has been a wonderful place to invest money," he said, noting the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose from 100 points when he bought his first stock at age 11 to about 52,000 points now.
"The village idiot could have made it from that point forward," Buffett said.
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