The head of Pershing Square Capital Management also said that Buffett is too conservative in his investment discipline.

Picking Buffett's brain happens a number of ways. Quarterly filed Form 13Fs allow investors to see which stocks he and his top advisors, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, have been buying and selling. Likewise, Berkshire's quarterly operating results provide insight on whether Buffett and his team are net buyers or sellers of stocks.

The lifeline that Warren Buffett just handed Shigeru Ishiba couldn’t come at a better moment for the beleaguered Japanese prime minister.

Buffett opened the 2024 letter by being candid about Berkshire's mistakes, essentially saying they are par for the course. By accepting that mistakes happen, Berkshire can focus more on its "batting average" by being right more often than it is wrong. But what Berkshire seems to care the most about is slugging.

Warren Buffett is celebrating the successes of Berkshire Hathaway’s companies last year and in the 60 years since he took over a struggling New England textile company and began converting it into a massive conglomerate.

I felt like something was missing from Warren Buffett’s latest Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter. So I reread it. Now that I’ve seen it, I can’t not see it. Or maybe more accurately: I can’t not not see it.

Warren Buffett has warned shareholders his time is nearly up, talked up his successor, and taken steps to protect Berkshire Hathaway and his legacy.