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Warren Buffet: Daily Routine
On Daily Routines, we profile successful leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, executives and athletes to explore the routines, schedules, habits and typical day in their life.
After doing my fair share of research, if I could sum up Warren Buffet’s daily routine, it would probably go something like this: wake up, eat McDonalds, drink Coke, read and sleep.
As the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and one of the most successful investors in the world, with a net worth of over $70 billion, Buffet is a well-known creature of habit. Born, raised and still living in Omaha, Buffet continues to reside in the same house he bought in 1958 for a little over $30,000.
Warren Buffet’s daily routine typically starts at 6.45am, after getting 8 hours of sleep a night. Instead of coffee, tea, or even water, Buffet’s go-to drink first thing in the morning is a can of coke, “If I eat 2700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola. I drink at least five 12-ounce servings. I do it everyday.”
On his way into the office, Buffet also likes to stop by McDonalds to grab breakfast, “When I’m not feeling quite so prosperous, I might go with the $2.61, which is two sausage patties, and then I put them together and pour myself a Coke,” he revealed in the 2017 HBO documentary, Becoming Warren Buffett. “$3.17 is a bacon, egg and cheese…