I found this while catching up on Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac".
The
August 30th entry (broadcast on many public radio stations and also available on the web or by e-mail, but not as an RSS feed that I can see) mentions that that date is the birthday of zillionaire Warren Buffett.
It concludes with this: He also said, "If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."