Warren Buffett, on being asked why he bought the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad for $34 billion:

Because my father wouldn’t buy me a train set when I was a kid.

List of assets owned by Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett’s investment company.  Apparently his dad wouldn’t buy him a Dairy Queen, either.

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