Re: Luck is a huge factor

morrisjcroy@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
The entire world is completely random,
Then, to you, the likes of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are statistical
fluctuations?

Who knows? They may very well have been lucky to be at the right time
at the right place. If Buffett and/or Gates were born, say 50 years
earlier, we may very well have never heard of either today.


Apparently Buffett used Benjamin Graham's book "The Intelligent Investor" as a guide. Perhaps the latter should be the one who is given the attribution.
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