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Billionaire Buffett’s final words on longevity, luck and corporate greed

Elizabeth Knight Business columnist November 11, 2025 — 2.26pm Advertisement

It’s a day for remembering legends. In Australia, we visit the 50th anniversary of the controversial dismissal of prime minister Gough Whitlam. But for the rest of the western world, history was being made by the “Oracle of Omaha” Warren Buffett as he penned his last letter as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway.

Described as the modern-day father of business, it is the end of an era for the man who has built a personal fortune of around $US150 billion ($229.6 billion).

And Buffett hanging up his spurs has had a greater historical poignancy as he signed off lamenting the curse of ex

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