1. When he was a young child, he would:
- buy 5-packs of gum
- open them up, and
- sell the individual sticks of gum, door to door, for a small profit on the whole pack
2. There’s a famous picture of him as a small child, holding a change machine that he used for making change for customers: Warren Buffett: A Life in Photos – Photo Essays.
3. By the time he graduated from high school, he was earning more than his teachers, as the manager of a paper route. He’d also saved the equivalent of about $70,000 in today’s dollars, before graduating from high school.
4. He bought his first stock at age 11. He thought it was undervalued. He was right, and he made a profit on it. He is Warren Buffet, after all! What’s the first stock Warren Buffett ever bought?
