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When Warren Buffett Was 7 Years Old, He Read This 1 Book. It Inspired His Whole Career
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When Warren Buffett Was 7 Years Old, He Read This 1 Book. It Inspired His Whole Career

It's 83 years old, but I found it and read it. (Plus 5 more things worth reading today.)

Bill Murphy Jr.
Oct 28, 2019
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When Warren Buffett Was 7 Years Old, He Read This 1 Book. It Inspired His Whole Career
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When Warren Buffett was 7, he read a book called One Thousand Ways to Make $1,000. Read it to pieces, in fact. He became obsessed.

Decades ago, Fortune ran a profile that described him as having "virtually memorized" it.

First published in 1936, One Thousand Ways has been out of print for decades. But last year, I found it and read it.

I’m Bill Murphy Jr…

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