Warren Buffett: The Fortune Years

The Oracle of Omaha has long been considered the iconic value investor. As Buffett celebrates his 80th birthday today, Fortune takes a look back at the decades he's spent gracing our cover.

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September 29, 1986
September 29, 1986

"To him the perfect amount to leave children is 'enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.'''

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