I was lucky---when I was born in 1930, I won the ovarian lottery. You know, I was born in the United States. The odds were 30 or 40 to one against that. I was b

I was lucky---when I was born in 1930, I won the ovarian lottery. You know, I was born in the United States. The odds were 30 or 40 to one against that. I was born white. If I had been born black, my life would have been different. I was born male. My life would have been vastly different if I had been born female. So, I had all kinds of lucky things. -Warren Buffett, 4 Oct. 2011 [1] Certainly Michael Burry had enormous luck. But there were plenty of others with the same amount of luck who did not see the crisis coming or who did nothing about it. [1] http://fortune.com/2011/10/04/warren-buffett-at-fortunes-most-powerful-women-summit/ http://fortune.com/2011/10/04/warren-buffett-at-fortunes-mos...