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To: Lane3 who wrote (64533)	5/8/2008 6:47:30 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 543182

<<<My own opinion is that the vast majority of people can accumulate a significant stash over a lifetime if they apply themselves. People just don't do what is needed. >>> That is kind of right, after a fashion. But Warren Buffet puts it in a different perspective when he says that if you put him in a different environment, he would probably not do as well. If he was born in Africa, for example, his ability to allocate capital would not get him very far. Horses for courses as they say around the paddocks.