Timothy Sumer

Warren Buffett is one of the most powerful investors in the world. » Subscribe to CNBC Make It.: Today Buffett is CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, but he bought his first stock when he was just 11. And he’s been very, very good at it. Buffett is worth $82.5 billion, according to Forbes, making him the third richest person alive (behind Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his friend and Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates). So how does he do it? Here are five of his best bits of investing wisdom. 1. Investing is a long game “Now if they think they can dance in and out [of the market] and buy and sell stocks, they ought to head for Las Vegas. I mean, they can’t do that,” Buffett told “Squawk Box” October 2014. “But what they can do is determinate that there’s a number of solid American businesses, a great number of them, and if you own a cross section of them and particularly if you buy them over time, you basically can’t lose.” “I know what markets are going to do over a long period