Originally Posted by
Roody
I do respect that for men who were so motivated to garner wealth, it must be emotionally difficult to turn around and give it all away.
Roody, I wouldn't lose a minute of sleep over that. The garnering of wealth is a secondary motivation. At those levels, the actual dollar amounts don't really mean anything. They are just the chips in the game. For Gates the thrill was making his company the dominant one. For Buffett it was beating the other investors and beating the averages. If you read some of Buffets books, its obvious that for him the fun was to be able to pull off big gains while others were losing their shirts. One good indicator of that is that Buffett still lives in a modest house in Omaha.