Warren Buffett retires: this is how he managed to become the best investor in history

Illustration for BUSINESS 12/28/2025PHOTO: COLOMBATOAfter a life dedicated to business, Warren Buffett says goodbye at the age of 95. The one known as the Oracle of Omaha gives Greg Abel his position as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, the company he founded almost half a century ago and is worth more than a billion dollars. Buffett’s investing instinct began in his childhood. Raised during the Great Depression, he devoured stock market information as if it were a comic and at 11 he bought his first share. In 1962 he acquired Berkshire Hathaway, a textile company that entered a serious crisis due to globalization, to cement a conglomerate with tentacles in various sectors and brands such as Duracell or the Geico insurance company. Thus he created his empire. To the conglomerate are added the investments that the tycoon has in groups such as Coca-Cola, Apple or Meta. His fortune today amounts to 150,000 million dollars. And he has become a business legend: to get an idea, someone who put 100 dollars in Berkshire in 1965, today has almost three million dollars. Although he maintains some contradictions… He has always been one of those few super-rich who has demanded fairer taxation, he maintains a relatively frugal lifestyle in his hometown and has been very critical of the excesses of Wall Street. But, despite being a fierce critic of the defects of capitalism, he has criticized it like no one else. And he has not hesitated to position himself politically. He supported Hilary Clinton in the 2016 election and has been an outspoken critic of Trump’s trade policy in recent years. ©Photo: ColombatoIf you want to know more, you can read here.