Warren Buffett turns 87 -- here's how rich you'd be if you had bet $1,000 on him back in the day

Warren Buffett turns 87 on Wednesday, and over the last half-century, hehas turneda failing textile company into a legendary conglomerate. Using historical price data for Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares froma retrospective analysisof Buffett's outsized returns andYahoo Finance, we calculated how much $1,000 of Berkshire stock would be worth today if you had invested that money at the end of each year of Buffett's tenure. That $1,000 invested in 1964, when Buffett took over the company and shar...