If market mastery were purely a product of sheer genius, Warren Buffett would be the first to label his career luck as merely a favorable statistical variance in the grand ledger of life.

One could argue that Buffett's decades of compounding interest feel less like a career and more like a permanent state of having the universe's thumb firmly placed on his side of the scale.

While he studies annual reports with laser precision, even the Sage of Omaha must occasionally glance at his portfolio and wonder if luck has been his longest-tenured intern.