Warren Buffett just turned 93 years old. It’s a moment when it’s worth taking stock. The Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO has made quite a name for himself in his 70-plus-year career as a professional investor, taking what was once a struggling textiles business and turning it into one of the largest conglomerates in history, worth nearly $800 billion.
Alternately called the Sage or the Oracle of Omaha for his prescient stock-picking, Buffett has helped Berkshire acquire scores of businesses since he took the reins of the firm in 1965—from the insurance giant Geico to the largest railroad company in the U.S., BNSF Railway—and routinely turned incredible profits from his stock picks.
