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What scares you about getting older?

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 3 Arts and letters 56 Politics and public life 5 Business and finance 2 Technology 1 Sport 1
Read by age Any age In their thirties 10 In their forties 8 In their fifties 14 In their sixties 12 Seventy and beyond 15
Henry R. Kravis Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
But nothing lasts forever and that's not how you lay the bricks of a building with a strong foundation.
Recorded KKR, 2024 source ↗
Warren Buffett Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
I go in every day to the office. I don't accomplish hardly anything. I mean, in terms of – it just takes me way longer to do things. And Greg is so good. It was kind of embarrassing how good he is, because he has covered – you know, we've got about 200 businesses within Berkshire, you know, that came about, and I can't name the manager's names or their wives names, or – and I haven't seen them, you know, in a long time. It's easier just to write the letter once a year and kind of do my own thing. Greg covers more ground in a day than I would in a week, even when I was at my peak, let alone my present condition.
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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