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From the link: Buffett says, "I didn’t get money from my parents, and I really didn’t want it."

Which kind of elides the fact that his father was a sitting US Congressman. Investors were willing to give large sums of money to a man in his early twenties so he could flip manufacturing firms. Ovarian lottery doesn't quite cover it.



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