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Fortune
Sarah Glodek

Warren Buffett says his $147 billion investing career was an accident: ‘I may be one of the 10 luckiest in the world’

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Warren Buffett has spent nearly nine decades building an investing empire. But he mostly attributes his massive success to one thing: luck.

The Berkshire Hathaway chairman, whose net worth now sits at roughly $147 billion, told CNBC in an interview published Wednesday that chance, not just skill, has been a defining force behind his career.

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