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How Buffett Turned Three Early Disasters Into Success

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Rupert Hargreaves
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Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have built a reputation as some of the best investors ever. It's taken a lot of time and effort to earn this label and a few mistakes along the way.

Most of these errors were made in the early part of their career, the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, when the duo was starting out and putting the foundations in place to build Berkshire Hathaway into the powerhouse it is today.

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