SoftArox

The real stories behind famous fortunes.

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Warren Buffett made his son pay rent on a 400-acre farm, priced by his body weight.

Howard Buffett didn’t know he was rich.

His sister told her class their dad was a security guard. He was a security analyst.

Howard tried 3 colleges. He finished 0.

Warren wasn’t worried. “It made no difference to me whether he found it in a college or not.”

Then Howard chose farming. Warren bought the land. Howard paid the rent.

The terms:
Target weight: 182.5 pounds.
Howard weighed about 200.
Over the line: 26% of gross income.
Under it: 22%.
“Financial incentives are supposed to work in some things,” Warren said. “They don’t work very well at weight.”
Why not just give him the farm?
“I don’t think he’s entitled to be given a farm just because his last name is Buffett.”
September 18, 2026. Howard, 71, became chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.

Warren wouldn’t give his son a farm. The board gave him a $1 trillion company.

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@PersonGratt Every other big buyer haggles. Medicare wasn’t allowed to

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@Plioric89 Dinosaur, Texas would be the most Cuban thing ever

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Muhammad Ali, 30, told Johnny Carson why champions go broke. At 38, he was still taking punches for $8M.

November 1972. The Tonight Show.
A ban had cost Ali over 3 years of his prime. The Frazier fight paid $2.5M.

Carson asks if he'll end up broke.
Beau Jack, a former champion, is "shining shoes somewhere down in Florida."

Ali blames the men around the fighters.

"He cannot watch his money. He cannot watch his accountants. He cannot watch his lawyers or his managers."
"Half of them are crooked and conniving."

The managers went to school for money. The fighter didn't.

"They always remember the name Joe Louis."

Louis made millions. He ended up owing the IRS over $1M and greeting tourists at Caesars Palace.

And Ali's own money?
"I have accountants and everybody checking everybody."

8 years later, he lost to Holmes.
Parkinson's followed in 1984.

In 2006, he sold 80% of his own name for $50M.

The money held. The body didn't.

"It won't be because I wasn't watching."

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@callumxbt Read every contract except his own will

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@0xKyrex One deal at a time. That’s how founders lose it

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@MarkTaylormmh Turns out a promise doesn’t hold up in court

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@0xKyrex Every one of those punches paid someone else

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Muhammad Ali, 30, told Johnny Carson why champions go broke. At 38, he was still taking punches for $8M.

November 1972. The Tonight Show.
A ban had cost Ali over 3 years of his prime. The Frazier fight paid $2.5M.

Carson asks if he'll end up broke.
Beau Jack, a former champion, is "shining shoes somewhere down in Florida."

Ali blames the men around the fighters.

"He cannot watch his money. He cannot watch his accountants. He cannot watch his lawyers or his managers."
"Half of them are crooked and conniving."

The managers went to school for money. The fighter didn't.

"They always remember the name Joe Louis."

Louis made millions. He ended up owing the IRS over $1M and greeting tourists at Caesars Palace.

And Ali's own money?
"I have accountants and everybody checking everybody."

8 years later, he lost to Holmes.
Parkinson's followed in 1984.

In 2006, he sold 80% of his own name for $50M.

The money held. The body didn't.

"It won't be because I wasn't watching."

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@0xjakke Spending $407k in a month takes real dedication

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@0xKevix Hard to say. Most of that stuff never goes public

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@koaxbt Way more than the $8M Holmes fight paid

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@koaxbt Best $2 million anyone ever spent on a phone number

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@meroxbt Being the champ doesn’t make you good with money

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@reidgrows Everyone thinks their guys are the honest ones

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@MarkTaylormmh His own doctor saw it coming

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@Benderxxx7 And he still fought once more after Holmes

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@MaxSterlindh The bank is stuck with your rate. You aren’t

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@Plioric89 He couldn’t fight anymore, but his name still could

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@Benderxxx7 The pigeons are the only part that makes sense

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@quroolarc He took that KFC rejection seriously

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@reidgrows Funny, but he means it