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TIL At age 15, Warren Buffett used $1,200 he’d saved from selling Coke bottles, magazines, and delivering newspapers to buy a 40-acre farm in Nebraska. (www.architecturaldigest.com)
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Its admirable, and I’ve always had a positive respect for Warren Buffet, but in context things were vastly different in 1945, when he was 15.

Adjusted for inflation, his $1,500 savings and investment is approximately equivalent to $26,880 today: