Most people (56.8%) around the world identify as introverts, according to a 2020 study from The Myers-Briggs Company. Those with an introverted personality are often reflective and self-aware, prefer to write rather than speak and feel tired after being in a crowd. Naturally, many introverts aren’t big fans of public speaking. Addressing an audience might...
You might already know one significant fact about Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg: They all belong to the $100 billion club, which boasts just 14 members. Image Credit: Monica Schipper | Getty Images. Warren Buffett, left; Bill Gates, right. Buffett, the 94-year-old chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has a net worth of...
Warren Buffett revised his will and gave his biggest yearly donation yet to five charities. Buffett told The Wall Street Journal on Friday that almost all of his fortune, valued at about $130 billion, will now go into a new charitable trust upon his death. Buffett’s children, Susie, Howie, and Peter Buffett, will helm the...
The phone lines were down at Berkshire Hathaway’s headquarters for a few days this week — so CEO Warren Buffett worked from his iPhone. “I don’t know how to do much with it, but I do know how to answer calls,” Buffett, 93, told The Omaha World-Herald on Wednesday. “I’m glad we didn’t sell all...
Billionaire Warren Buffett revealed that his investment company, Berkshire Hathaway, offloaded its shares in Paramount — and it’ll cost them. During the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Saturday, Buffett took responsibility for selling Berkshire’s stake in the entertainment company. “I was 100% responsible for the Paramount decision,” Buffett told attendees. “It was 100% my decision,...
Succession plans at the $870 billion Berkshire Hathaway took center stage on Saturday as thousands of shareholders attended the firm’s annual meeting in Omaha. Investors questioned 93-year-old Berkshire chairman Warren Buffett about what would change when Berkshire’s vice chairman Greg Abel, 61, who has been at the firm for 25 years, takes over as chief...
Billionaire Charlie Munger, the investing sage who made a fortune even before he became Warren Buffett’s right-hand man at Berkshire Hathaway, has died at age 99. Munger died Tuesday, according to a press release from Berkshire Hathaway. The conglomerate said it was advised by members of Munger’s family that he peacefully died this morning at...