✍️ Warren Buffett’s Final Shareholder Letter Highlights

⋆ “I will no longer be writing Berkshire Hathaway’s annual report or talking endlessly at the annual meeting. As the British would say, I’m ‘going quiet.’  Sort of.”

⋆ Greg Abel will succeed Buffett as CEO at year‑end; Buffett described him as “a great manager, a tireless worker and an honest communicator.”

⋆ Buffett converted 1,800 Class A shares into 2.7 million Class B shares and donated them to his children’s foundations; the move “in no way reflects any change in my views about Berkshire’s prospects.”

⋆ He reflected on his roots in Omaha, his near‑death as a child, longtime friendship with Charlie Munger, and the value of growing up in the American Midwest.

⋆ Closing advice: “Decide what you would like your obituary to say and live the life to deserve it. … Greatness does not come about through accumulating great amounts of money … Kindness is costless but also priceless.”