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Warren Buffett

Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025

United States · b. 1930

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Ran Berkshire Hathaway, a diversified holding company, from 1965 until stepping down as chief executive at the end of 2025. He studied under Benjamin Graham at Columbia Business School and has written an annual letter to Berkshire shareholders since the 1970s.

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Question In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to? Daily life read 21 other answers →
Yeah and we get calls all the time, and there's so many calls, but the like I said, it takes me five seconds to say no. It takes, Greg's a little more polite than I am, but I just as soon get the calls just to see what people are doing. But they aren't offering anything that's at an attractive price, and what they want is a trade.
Recorded Becky Quick, CNBC “Squawk Box”, recorded in Omaha; CNBC's own transcript of its own broadcast, 31 March 2026 source ↗

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