> Be Warren Buffett > 95 years old > Born 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska > Son of a U.S. Congressman & stockbroker > Start hustling at age 6 selling chewing gum & Coke door-to-door > Buy your first stock at age 11 > File your first tax return at age 13 > Deliver newspapers, save up, buy 40 acres of farmland at 14 & rent it out > Graduate high school saying "likes math; future stockbroker" > Get rejected by Harvard Business School > Go to Columbia instead → study under Benjamin Graham, father of value investing > Work for Graham, then start own partnerships in 1950s > Take control of failing textile company Berkshire Hathaway in 1965 (later calls it his biggest mistake) > Pivot it into insane investment vehicle using insurance float > Compound at ~20%+ annually for decades while S&P does ~10% > Become billionaire around age 56 (most wealth after 50) > Live in same modest Omaha house bought in 1958 for $31,500 > Drink Cherry Coke & eat McDonald's breakfast every day > Amass $100B+ net worth (peaking near $150B+ in 2020s) > Pledge 99% of wealth to philanthropy → give tens of billions to Gates Foundation & others > Marry high school sweetheart Susan, stay married 52 years (she passes 2004) > Marry longtime companion Astrid on 76th birthday > Run Berkshire annual meetings like rock concerts ("Woodstock for Capitalists") > Mentor generations of investors with simple wisdom: "Be fearful when others are greedy..." > Retire as CEO at end of 2025 at age 95 > Still worth ~$145–149B, one of world's richest humans And he did it all by reading annual reports, eating junk food, and never selling his soul to Wall Street hype. Warren Buffett is absolutely insane.