A recent documentary, Becoming Warren Buffett, gave some fascinating glimpses into this brilliant but complicated man.

Certainly he ranks amongst the richest men on the planet. He has developed, (via his deceased first wife according to Warren himself) a social conscience and will be giving away almost all of his fortune.

He certainly won't be spending much of it on himself, as he is also a personal miser, in one scene he is shown ordering a bare bones McDonalds breakfast, to the penny, with the money for the breakfast placed in his car ahead of time, in exact change,  by his present wife.

To him, it is sport, blood sport, to see that Berkshire stock continues to  appreciate.

He extols the miracle of compound interest, plus time and careful research, as the magic formula.

But to him, wealth is a number - and the continued accumulation of wealth far outweighs any pleasure from spending that wealth.

Buy and hold is fine. You'll die rich, on paper.

And then, you're just gone.