Warren Buff et says he is lucky just to be alive! “I’ve had all this good fortune,” he is quoted as saying in a recent TIME magazine cover story on him, and it starts with “being born in this country. It starts with being born male and in 1930”. Warren Buffet
defi nitely had and continues to have great good fortune – mainly because he believes he is lucky. Born in the year of the Horse into a good solid middle class American family, Warren Buff et considers himself lucky just to be living in America, a place he considers
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to be the best place on earth to be a thinking investing capitalist. He believes in making money;
believes in good management, in fi nding value in companies. He makes no secret of his beliefs, expounding theories on how he picks and chooses the companies to invest in, something he does so successfully that it has made him America’ s third richest individual. Those who have believed e n o u g h
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him to hold shares in his investment company BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY have likewise made millions. When the company’s shares were first off ered 47 years ago, it was priced at
$19. T at same share is today worth US$116,914/- Anyone owning just 100 shares would thus be sitting on a value of $11.69 million! T at kind of wealth creation is awesome by any standards. But Warren Buff et says everything
boils down to luck. Being at
the right place at the
right time, looking at all the right numbers… reading the right kind of newspapers, magazines… buying into the market even when others stay on the sidelines. Being an intelligent investor is important… but it is not enough to make you rich if you do not also have luck on your side. Today, this billionaire philanthropist is unashamedly optimistic about America… and in recent weeks, he has been talking up the country. Perhaps he is aware of the powerful number 8 star fl ying to the West in 2012? Warren Buff et may not be a feng shui expert but his sixth sense is uncanny. He knows the Dragon Year benefi ts the bird which in America rises as the magnifi cent eagle.