Warren Buffett: The True Superhero with the Gift of Foresight

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The remarkable life of Warren Buffett has been full of shrewd investments that led him to briefly become the richest man on Earth, before promptly giving most of his fortune to charities fighting to halt climate change and eradicate poverty and disease. While he continues to accumulate wealth through his tremendous knowledge of the stock market, and is widely revered as the most influential figure in investment history, he continues to donate billions to philanthropic causes while inspiring others to follow his lead, a True Superhero of philanthropy as well as investment.

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The bottle cap researcher

Warren was born in 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, and from an incredibly early age he was displaying the qualities that would later make his fortune. Warren didn’t just have a prodigious talent for numbers, he was also determined to make use of those skills to make money in any way he could. In the beginning, this meant hanging around gas stations collecting discarded bottle caps. While his contemporaries played, seven-year-old Buffett was doing market research, diligently logging the brands of the bottle caps he found and taking note of which brands sold best in which areas. The answer was predominantly Coca-Cola, so the young entrepreneur went to his uncle, who ran a local grocery store, and cut a wholesale deal to buy crates of six Cokes for a quarter. He then hit the streets selling the bottles door-to-door for a nickel a piece, making a tidy profit in the process.

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