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Berkshire Hathaway · Letters to Shareholders, 1977–2024
Letters
48
Themes
7+
Companies
7+
Why we built it
For 48 years, Warren Buffett has explained — in plain English — how he thinks about businesses, capital, risk, and people. The letters are a living record of financial discipline and hard-won trade-offs. We read every one, tagged every passage, and put it all behind a single question box. Ask Buffett is the book and the website that follow.
How it works
1977
On owner earnings
See's Candies
Pricing power
Charlie Munger
73 mentions
01, Browse
Jump from 1977 to 2008 in one click. Filter by moats, dividends, acquisitions, or read everything Buffett ever wrote about Charlie Munger.
“It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”
02, Ask
Type a real question, 'when do you sell?', 'how do you value an insurer?', and pull the exact passages, with year and context attached.
1977 → 2024
48 years of Buffett on competitive moats
03, Learn
Each theme is paired with a short essay from the book, the trade-off, the mistake, the rule Buffett refined over the next twenty years.
Companies & people
7+ companies and 400+ people, cross-linked to every letter that mentions them.
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