Billionaire Warren Buffett's Daughter Says He's Just A Normal Guy Who Doesn't Care About Money – 'He's Pretty Boring'

Warren Buffett is a man of extremes. His net worth? Over $140 billion. His fans? So devoted that someone once paid a record-breaking $19 million just to have lunch with him. For most people, that level of fame and fortune screams "fascinating." Yet, according to his daughter, Susan Buffett, the man behind Berkshire Hathaway is far from the larger-than-life figure the world imagines. In her words, he's actually "pretty boring."

Yes, boring. That's coming from the daughter of the guy who commands stadium-sized audiences at shareholder meetings. However, as Susan explained in a 2017 HBO documentary, the real Warren Buffett is nothing like the rock star people expect.

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"When we were growing up, he didn't have a lot of money and he wasn't famous," Susan said. "So we didn't see anything but a regular, normal situation in our house. He went to the office every day, came home and was at the dinner table. He did go upstairs and read the rest of the evening, but he was home. And we lived pretty much like everybody else. Nothing was too different. We lived in what I guess I would describe as an upper-middle-class neighborhood. He still lives in the same house today."

Susan also revealed that the scale of her father's success didn't sink in for a long time. "I didn't really have any idea about any money until I was long out of high school and out of Omaha [where they both lived and he still does]. I’d say there was an article in the Wall Street Journal when I was probably about 22 or 23. That was the first time I was like, ‘Oh, there's more going on than I knew about.'"

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And what about the personality behind those billions? Susan says the world might be surprised by how unassuming her father is. "He's pretty boring – it's just not what people expect," she told PEOPLE in a 2017 interview. "I think it's also probably surprising to people that the money doesn't matter to him. He made the money sort of by accident because he was really good at doing what he loved and when you do that particular thing really well, you end up with a whole bunch of money. But it's really true that he does not care about having a bunch of money."

While the world sees Warren Buffett as a financial titan, Susan sees the man still content in the same modest home he bought in 1958. To her, his billions are just a byproduct of his passion – not the point. And though she agrees with his financial philosophy, she values something more than money: the grounding perspective her father gave her.

Maybe the contrast is what makes Warren Buffett so interesting. To his fans, he's a billionaire investing icon worth. But to his daughter, he's just a regular dad who happens to be really, really good at math – and maybe a little too into his reading time.

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