new York It was a kind of blind date: In 1959, a couple from Omaha, Nebraska, invited Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger to have lunch together. The two asset managers are so similar that they simply had to get to know each other, was their motivation. “And it clicked immediately,” Buffett said in 2018. “Charlie laughed at his own jokes, like I always do. And I knew: I’ll never meet someone like him again.”
That lunch was the beginning of a long and lucrative male friendship. Buffett, CEO of the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, is now the third richest man in the world with a fortune of $115 billion, according to calculations by the US magazine “Forbes”. Munger, also a billionaire, has been his deputy chairman and closest confidante since 1978.
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