Warren Buffett is arguably the greatest investor of all time. He is often dubbed “The Oracle of Omaha” because of his incredible ability to seemingly predict winning stocks. In 2009, Forbes magazine ranked him as the second richest man in America at an estimated net worth of 40 billion dollars. His company, Berkshire Hathaway has been incredibly successful. If you had invested 1,000 dollars in Berkshire Hathaway when he first took it over, your investment would have grown to 3 million dollars 40 years later.