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2025 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting-Warren Buffett Quotes

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This mind map presents key quotes and insights from Warren Buffett at the 2025 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting, with a focus on topics relevant to Taiwanese audiences. The quotes reflect Buffett’s timeless investment principles, caution against AI-related fraud, his views on asset allocation, real estate, cryptocurrency, and global trade. Additionally, he shared personal reflections on life values, leadership, work satisfaction, and ethical standards. The themes resonate strongly with those navigating financial decisions, career paths, and global uncertainty in Taiwan’s current landscape.

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Artificial Intelligence and Its Risks

Quote: 'We let the genie out of the bottle when we developed nuclear weapons… and AI is somewhat similar.'

Concern over AI-generated scams: 'The growth industry of all time.'

Observation: 'AI has enormous potential for good and enormous potential for harm.'

Analogy: 'With AI, it can change everything in the world except how men think and behave.'

Investing Amid Market Volatility

Quote: 'Don’t panic during market fluctuations; adopt a long-term perspective.'

Advice: Avoid emotional biases in investment decisions.

Reflection: 'Patience and rational decision-making are critical to investment success.'

Humor: 'I was a baby during the Great Depression and did nothing—missed opportunity!'

U.S. Economic Strength and the Dollar

Quote: 'We [the dollar] are the reserve currency… I see no option for any other currency to be the reserve currency.'

On cryptocurrencies: 'Forget about all the toys – it’s a joke to think of any tokens, that’s madness.'

Warning: 'It's also madness to just keep printing money.'

Succession and Berkshire’s Future

On Greg Abel: 'The responsibility ought to be entirely with Greg… I think the responsibility should be that of the CEO.'

Principle: Understanding businesses is key to understanding stocks.

Confidence: 'We've really got the problem solved for the next 20 years unless something untoward happens.'

Life Lessons and Legacy

Quote: 'You should write your obituary and then try to figure out how to live up to it.'

Quote: 'I know rich people who have died without friends.'

Advice: 'Avoid debt, and in business try to avoid taking on so much risk that a single mistake can wipe you out.'

Additional Insights

On Mistakes: 'We missed a lot of things, and what we really regretted was missing something that turned out to be very big.'

On Education: 'I never look at where a candidate has gone to school. Never!'

On Taxes: 'Berkshire last year made four payments to the IRS that totaled $26.8 billion.'

On Capital Allocation: 'We'd love to spend it, but we won't spend it unless we think we're doing something that has very little risk and can make us a lot of money.'