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Fortune
Sasha Rogelberg

Warren Buffett says his white male status gave him confidence early on that he would one day become rich

Photo of Warren Buffett (Credit: Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage)

Decades of success and $150 billion later, investor Warren Buffett has identified one key to his unquestioned success: being a white guy.

In a Monday letter to shareholders announcing more than $1 billion in shares to be donated to his family’s charities, Buffett was also candid about his path to becoming the world’s seventh-richest person.

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