Warren Buffett Made Me a Millionaire at 26 | Here's How

Imagine waking up one day, checking your bank account, and realizing... you're a millionaire. At 26. Sounds like a dream, right? Well, it wasn’t luck, a lottery win, or some secret family trust fund. It was the result of one man’s wisdom—Warren Buffett. In this video, I’m going to show you exactly how studying Warren Buffett’s wealth building principles completely transformed my financial life and how they can do the same for you. I don’t say this to brag, and I know this video will definitely get some hate. However, if I can help just one person by sharing the lessons I have learned from Buffett it would make all the hard work that has gone into making this video worth it. Stick around, because by the end of this video, you’ll have the blueprint that took me from zero to seven figures, all thanks to the Oracle of Omaha. Let’s dive in.

I remembered when I first stumbled across Warren Buffett. I was a freshman in college, scrolling on Youtube one night. I had always been interested in making money and investing but had never found a reliable wealth building playbook that actually made sense. That all changed the night the wonderful youtube algorithm introduced me to Buffett. I have since gone on to spend hundreds of hours devouring nearly every single piece of content on Warren Buffett. Those hundreds of hours can be condensed into this video and 4 key lessons from Buffett that made me a millionaire at 26.

The first lesson from Warren Buffett is to work in a career with high leverage. Let me explain what Buffet means with a quick story. At just 10 years old, a young Warren Buffett started his first job working at his grandfather's grocery store. Warren was essentially a helper, performing various tasks as needed, like stocking shelves, sweeping floors, and assisting customers. A young Warren Buffett would work grueling 10 hour days for just two dollars a day. Warren started running the numbers and quickly came to a realization. Even if he worked 100 hours a week, at just 20 cents an hour, he would never be able to achieve his financial goals.

This experience taught Buffett a lesson. If you want to get wealthy, it’s much easier when you have a high paying job. And the way you get a high paying job is to work in a position where you have what is known as leverage. Put another way, you want to be working a job where your income is not directly tied to the number of hours you put in. Here’s how to explain this concept of leverage when it comes to a career. Input times leverage equals output. Input are the hours of work you put in and output is how much you are paid. You may not have thought about it this way, but this leverage factor is why some jobs barely pay the bills and other careers can make someone a multi-millionaire.

Let’s compare Buffett’s grocery store job to his job as a research analyst at his mentor Ben Graham’s investment fund. In this role, Buffett was tasked with researching and identifying potentially attractive investments on behalf of the fund. Including performance based bonuses, Buffett's annual pay at this job reached as much as 20,000 in 1954 dollars. This is over 230,000 dollars in today’s money. This is incredibly impressive when you consider Warren Buffett was only 24 at the time.

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[DexDiamond]

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[Rogershijianhui]

I am at 1.4M at 31. Thanks to Trump, Rich dad poor dad and Warren Buffet 😊

[CaptainMarvel]

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[p.d.stanhope]

Congrats, IC. Well deserved success. 😁

[financialwisdom]

I am 580, 000 at 27 right now lol. give me a minute. I am coming after you

[skypickle]

value investing in the 50s and 60s was a little harder (you actually had to read books and many many reports) but this was a significant moat that prevented average people from becoming investors. Now w AI, everybody is pounding the net with queries and value investing is much much harder due to competition. This results in alot of speculation and Mr. Market is lot more manic.

[armanimaister]

It would be cool to get numerical examples of how much money you make, save, invested in the properties, mortgages, etc in detail…thanks!

[harrisonmixer]

May I suggest working on your speaking voice. That low pause at the end of every song sentence is maddening. Correct info otherwise.

[ckloh]

Have been watching your videos since COVID pandemic and i love your works! How do i contact you for collabs? And whays the difference between Majority vs Controlling Shareholder membership in your YouTube channel? 😂

[destruction]

What should be approach for investing saved amount from salary in a stock. If I do complete stock analysis buffett way & decided to invest 50k in a particular stock. But I can only invest 7k per month from my salary savings. So in order to invest 50K i would need 7 months time period. But if stock moves 60% up in two months then company valuation changes & it may go above my calculated intrinsic value. What to do in such scenario??

[saifullahAli-czpc]

How can i became research analyst what courses should i choose ?? After 12 th

[roconnor]

I'm really pleased for you IC.Ignore the haters.

[hansdoreen]

Learn some Buffett interviews, make good youtube videos.

[vrusty]

You definitely hold some Berskhire stock

[Durkheim-zx]

You became financially rich because of your intellectual capacity. I say that you are richer because of the wisdom that God placed in your brain. You didn't want to be greater because you didn't want to be. You didn't lack intelligence, you didn't lack the will to work. In short: God gave you everything with love. God bless you. Your birthday is September 30th, I haven't forgotten. I would like to know when they will transfer the deed to the property in Rio de Janeiro. How many shares do I have in Apple? It is confidential at the moment.

[MichaelAlanera]

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