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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Graeme Wearden

‘Be fearful when others are greedy’: Warren Buffett’s sharpest lessons in investing

Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett, known as the Sage of Omaha, led Berkshire Hathaway, a struggling textile business, to become a $1tn empire. Photograph: Nati Harnik/AP

Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who is retiring at the end of 2025, has entertained and educated shareholders in his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate for many years with his pithy annual letters outlining the firm’s performance.

Every year since 1965 he has updated his investors on the journey as Berkshire morphed from a “struggling northern textile business” with $25m of shareholder equity when he took over, to an empire worth more than $1tn.

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