You know those days when only sausage (or Nutella) will do for breakfast? We all have a first meal of the day that our mums wouldn’t approve of — even Warren "I’ll let someone else have the broccoli" Buffett. The difference is that the Oracle of Omaha has his breakfast of champions most days of the week. And it almost always includes a glass of Coke. If you haven’t watched the HBO documentary Becoming Warren Buffett, you should. There’s this scene where Buffett (86), on his five-minute drive to the office, stops at a McDonald’s drive-through and places an order: a sausage McMuffin with egg and cheese. "I tell my wife, as I shave in the morning, I say: ‘Either US$2.61, $2.95 or $3.17’. And she puts that amount in the little cup by me here in the car. And that determines which of three breakfasts I get," he says to director Peter Kunhardt. "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 ...
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