From $6,000 To $67 Billion: Warren Buffett’s Wealth Through The Ages

So, what were you doing as a young teenager?

His story is well told. Warren Buffett became a player in the investment game at the wee age of 11, eventually using cash he earned from his paper route to buy some farmland in his home state. As a high school sophomore, he also reaped the rewards of a booming pinball machine business.

By the time Buffett was 15, he already had a net worth of about $6,000.

According to the latest Forbes count, the so-called Oracle of Omaha is now tipping the wealth scales at $67 billion. That’s good enough to put him at number three on the richest list, behind Bill Gates and Carlos Slim.

The Dadaviz blog put together the chart below with help from Dividend.com to show Buffett’s journey from prodigious teen to the octogenarian behind Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, -1.33%

Some notable Buffett milestones include his net worth topping the $1-million mark at around 30 years old and then taking out the $1-billion hurdle at 56 years old. The stretch from 59 years old to now hasn’t exactly been unkind, either. And he doesn’t appear to be slowing down much.

Check it out and be inspired! Or overcome with feelings of inadequacy…