Buffett “retiring”

[Mephistopheles]

Buffett retiring to focus on other endeavors perhaps??. Is there some shit at Berkshire we don’t know about? CEOs just don’t retire to “spend time with family”. Something is cooking and I don’t like it. 

Edited December 28, 2025 by Mephistopheles

[Malmqky]

He’s 95 and noticeably more frail/slow of mind than even a few years ago.

I don’t think there’s anything cooking…

 

[Mephistopheles]

10 hours ago, Malmqky said:

He’s 95 and noticeably more frail/slow of mind than even a few years ago.

I don’t think there’s anything cooking…

 

I was just drunk and trying to be funny

[Gregmal]

Well to be fair, one typically steps back to spend more time with family/children, pursue hobbies, do volunteer work, etc.... Buffett was never really interested in any of that stuff.

[schin]

On 12/29/2025 at 8:39 AM, Gregmal said:

Well to be fair, one typically steps back to spend more time with family/children, pursue hobbies, do volunteer work, etc.... Buffett was never really interested in any of that stuff.

 

His hobby and passion was investing! LOL.

[Gregmal]

39 minutes ago, schin said:

 

His hobby and passion was investing! LOL.

Sure, and god bless him. Investing is a means to an end for me. I don’t respect people whose purpose is “more” financially. More is achieved through the lives you positively influence. For me that’s my wife, kids, friends and extended family. 

If my purpose was purely financially I probably would be worth $100m+ by 40. The cost would’ve been missing things too dear to me in terms of life experiences.

 

[jbwent63]

On this day when Warren retires, it is the shareholders of BRK who are thankful for the 60 years he was at the helm. One sterling recent example of his wealth creation for shareholders is the portfolio of Japanese holding companies that he created over the last decade. My tracking shows about 1.9 trillion yen in debt outstanding as of today, and the value of the shares held is about 5.47 trillion (almost $35 billion USD). The gain in 2025 alone is 1.6 trillion yen (about $10.2 billion USD), a 41.44% gain vs the Nikkei 225 which was up a solid 26.2% for the year. Marubeni was the best performer with an 81.9% gain. Note these returns do not include dividends. What an amazing gift he is leaving Greg Abel as he takes over the reins. (All figures based on public information and may not be 100% accurate).

[73 Reds]

9 hours ago, Gregmal said:

Sure, and god bless him. Investing is a means to an end for me. I don’t respect people whose purpose is “more” financially. More is achieved through the lives you positively influence. For me that’s my wife, kids, friends and extended family. 

If my purpose was purely financially I probably would be worth $100m+ by 40. The cost would’ve been missing things too dear to me in terms of life experiences.

 

I think investing started out as Buffett's sole purpose but as he grew older he morphed into more of a teacher.  But I agree that money is far down the list of what is important, particularly once you have enough.   

[CassiusKing1]

10 hours ago, Gregmal said:

Sure, and god bless him. Investing is a means to an end for me. I don’t respect people whose purpose is “more” financially. More is achieved through the lives you positively influence. For me that’s my wife, kids, friends and extended family. 

If my purpose was purely financially I probably would be worth $100m+ by 40. The cost would’ve been missing things too dear to me in terms of life experiences.

 

Warren has a $100,000 salary and is giving away the bulk of his assets.  It's not about him, he became a steward of assets.  Berkshire became "for the people".  

Sure he was driven by money early on, but that changed.  It wasn't about riches, it was about how could he make the biggest impact on society and that came through leveraging his gift at investing.  We are all better for it!  Not only financially but through the education and examples he provided.

My family and I owe this man an immense amount of thanks.  I will continue to use his and Charlie's mental models and stay the course!

[Buckeye]

11 hours ago, Gregmal said:

Sure, and god bless him. Investing is a means to an end for me. I don’t respect people whose purpose is “more” financially. More is achieved through the lives you positively influence. For me that’s my wife, kids, friends and extended family. 

If my purpose was purely financially I probably would be worth $100m+ by 40. The cost would’ve been missing things too dear to me in terms of life experiences.

 

Way to kick Warren in the nuts on his way out the door while bragging about yourself. 

Edited December 31, 2025 by Buckeye

[DooDiligence]

Kicking, Screaming Warren Buffett Dragged From Caesars Palace After Losing Everything At Roulette Wheel

[SharperDingaan]

WEB was the outlier of his times, who managed to keep the gains compounding 'forever'; that one monkey in billions, that actually got it right All the power to him, but measure him against the metrics of his day ... not the metrics of today. The future is ever changing, as are the benchmarks that go with it, and many of the personal costs that were expected 'then' ... we wouldn't tolerate today.

 

As with all outliers, his ideas were revolutionary at the time, and immediately dismissed. Nobody likes change, we know everything, who do you think you are presuming how to tell us how to do it better?, know your place! Social sanctions were much stronger back in the day.

 

All around the world, yesterdays revolutionary is today's president .... if they can deliver results, and successfully adapt to changing times. Become too big to ignore, become the leadership that others follow, and let the upcoming generations do the adapting.

 

The ideas remain revolutionary; but their application has changed quite a bit over the times. Today, most everybody has access to the same tools, and it is now much more about both application and context. Computerisation, internet, social media, viral spread, adoption curves, crowd manipulation, etc.

 

Everybody eventually croaks; no exceptions.

 

SD

 

 

 

 

 

      

[DooDiligence]

Of all the tools at our disposal, behavior is arguably the most important. The best hammer ain't worth a shit if you keep banging your thumbs.

[Duke In Shadows]

 

[John Hjorth]

16 hours ago, Gregmal said:

... If my purpose was purely financially I probably would be worth $100m+ by 40. ... 

 

5 hours ago, Buckeye said:

Way to kick Warren in the nuts on his way out the door while bragging about yourself. 

 

Yeah, lack of repect for the elder, decency, politeness, and humility, humbleness.

[Gregmal]

Isnt it weird when people blindly worship complete strangers(feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this) or fail to distinguish obvious traits and differentiate? One can be the greatest of all time at one thing, and not so good at another. That seems to get lost on people at times....

[UK]

13 hours ago, Gregmal said:

Isnt it weird when people blindly worship complete strangers(feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this) or fail to distinguish obvious traits and differentiate? One can be the greatest of all time at one thing, and not so good at another. That seems to get lost on people at times....

 

I kind of have more respect and think that know some 'strangers' much better than a lot of people I was unfortunate to knew personally...I like to call them my 'distance teachers':). No need to worship every aspect of their lives though.

 

Edited January 1 by UK

[DooDiligence]

7 hours ago, UK said:

 

I kind of have more respect and think that know some 'strangers' much better than a lot of people I was unfortunate to knew personally...I like to call them my 'distance teachers':). No need to worship every aspect of their lives though.

 

 

Absolutely, unless they're celebrity politicians. In which case, feel free to create a cult of personality while ignoring weird behavior and criminal activity.

[Buckeye]

21 hours ago, Gregmal said:

Isnt it weird when people blindly worship complete strangers(feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this) or fail to distinguish obvious traits and differentiate? One can be the greatest of all time at one thing, and not so good at another. That seems to get lost on people at times....

What's weird to me is you blasting a 95 year old man, listing all of his deficiencies like it's some huge secret that he wasn't the greatest at many things outside of investing. Yea, we all know dude, Buffett has said these things many times himself.

 

It's also weird that you pat yourself on the back about taking a more "purposeful" route, while also boasting about your imagined net worth had you not taken the "higher road".  Some people would say you're a quitter.  Buffett didn't quit.   

 

And then when I call out your BS you mischaracterize my defense as "blind worhip"  

 

 

Edited January 1 by Buckeye

[DooDiligence]

6 minutes ago, Buckeye said:

What's weird to me is you blasting a 95 year old man, listing all of his deficiencies like it's some huge secret that he wasn't the greatest at many things outside of investing. Yea, we all know dude, Buffett has said these things many times himself.

 

It's also weird that you pat yourself on the back about taking a more "purposeful" route, while also boasting about your imagined net worth had you not taken the "higher road".  Some people would say you're a quitter.  Buffett didn't quit.   

 

And then when I call out your BS you mischaracterize my defense as "blind worhip"  

 

 

 

Buffett derangement syndrome?

 

edit: misspelled Buffett as Buffet

Edited January 1 by DooDiligence

[Gregmal]

31 minutes ago, Buckeye said:

What's weird to me is you blasting a 95 year old man, listing all of his deficiencies like it's some huge secret that he wasn't the greatest at many things outside of investing. Yea, we all know dude, Buffett has said these things many times himself.

 

It's also weird that you pat yourself on the back about taking a more "purposeful" route, while also boasting about your imagined net worth had you not taken the "higher road".  Some people would say you're a quitter.  Buffett didn't quit.   

 

And then when I call out your BS you mischaracterize my defense as "blind worhip"  

 

 

Soooo your feelings got hurt cuz I made a comment that was in no way directed at you, and really had nothing at all to do with you, other than criticizing the worship of your idol?(a comment you admitted, and claimed Buffett even admitted was true, only to later claim the comment was “bs”). So sorry! 

[valueinvesting101]

Happy New Year everyone.  Have a great one ahead!

 

[John Hjorth]

3 minutes ago, valueinvesting101 said:

Happy New Year everyone.  Have a great one ahead!

 

+1! - This, exactly this! - Thank you, @valueinvesting101 ! ,

 

We simply need to get along, across nationalities, cultures, generations, thereby also living conditions, for this board to function by its intentions! It requires some degree of personal flexibility and display of mutual understanding!

[Buckeye]

3 hours ago, Gregmal said:

Soooo your feelings got hurt cuz I made a comment that was in no way directed at you, and really had nothing at all to do with you, other than criticizing the worship of your idol?(a comment you admitted, and claimed Buffett even admitted was true, only to later claim the comment was “bs”). So sorry! 

My feelings ain’t hurt. I said he was an idol which is different than blindly worshipping. But whatevs, you do you and continue to boast about your fake net worth to a bunch of strangers on the internet.

[Gregmal]

11 minutes ago, Buckeye said:

My feelings ain’t hurt. I said he was an idol which is different than blindly worshipping. But whatevs, you do you and continue to boast about your fake net worth to a bunch of strangers on the internet.

Lmfao sure pal….no one was even talking to you but jump in again to nitpick something I have to say; to the rescue of your idol! You’ve got this weird obsession with me sometimes….dudes and their male idols….shrug