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Warren Buffett got lucky \u2014 or at least that’s what he says.<\/p>\n

The legendary investor and Berkshire Hathaway chairman underlined just how fortunate he’s been during a rare interview aired by CNBC on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Buffett said that “out of eight billion people, I may be one of the 10 luckiest in the world.”<\/p>\n

He’s lucky to be alive and healthy at age 95, he said. While he’s “losing marbles at this point,” he quipped, he “accumulated marbles for a longer time than I deserved, and that’s just a matter of luck.”<\/p>\n

Buffett also said he’s blessed that the field he’s passionate about and has a natural talent for \u2014 investing \u2014 has been so much more lucrative than if he’d been a “great violin player or anything else.”<\/p>\n

The business icon \u2014 who has a net worth approaching $150 billion despite giving away more than half of his Berkshire stock \u2014 said it was an “accident” that he gained early exposure to the world of finance thanks to his stockbroker father.<\/p>\n

“If my father had been a plumber,” he said, “I would not have had the same advantage I had.”<\/p>\n

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Buffett added that he and his family have seen how “unbelievably unlucky some people have been,” and those bad things “just didn’t happen to us.”<\/p>\n

The storied stockpicker, who retired as Berkshire’s CEO at the turn of the year, transformed a failing textile mill into a $1 trillion conglomerate. He oversaw a nearly 20% compounded annual gain in Berkshire’s stock price between 1965 and 2025 \u2014 roughly double the S&P 500’s gain over the same period.<\/p>\n

Buffett’s success is often attributed to his patience, discipline, and prudence as an investor, but he told CNBC that the stock market provided a nice tailwind.<\/p>\n

“America has been a wonderful place to invest money,” he said, noting the Dow Jones Industrial Average has skyrocketed from 100 points when he bought his first stock at age 11, to roughly 52,000 points.<\/p>\n

“The village idiot could have made it from that point forward,” Buffett joked about his early start, adding that he’s been “in the right game.”<\/p>\n

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