The simple mistake that saw me miss out on making MILLIONS: City Editor ALEX BRUMMER reveals blunder that cost him a 192,000% return on his money with Warren Buffett
The first time the name Warren Buffett was brought to my attention was on a Thanksgiving Day hike in Virginia's bucolic Blue Mountains in the early 1980s. A scientist friend, who had left the US Navy space labs to create a biotech start-up, said he had decided to buy a handful of shares in Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate for each of his children.
At the time the share price was $400, which, for someone brought up on UK shares, often trading at less than a pound, seemed a wildly extravagant investment.
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