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🕰️ Warren Buffett retires at 94!

Published 12 months ago • 1 min read

Greetings Reader,

Last week, at Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting, legendary investor Warren Buffett announced he was going to retire at 94 years old.

94!

As the old adage goes, "if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life."

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🦉 Retirement is a lie

In the last twenty or so years, the big shift in our thinking about work and retirement has been that of "early retirement."

It seems more appealing that trading the best forty years of your life for a few decades of retirement when you're less mobile.

But retirement itself is not something worth aspiring to and, if you're like one of the best investors in the world, not even worth taking even when you have the chance.

​👉 Retirement Is a Lie: Warren Buffett's Exit Proves We've Been Thinking About It All Wrong​

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