Lessons From Berkshire Warren Buffett 2023 Shareholder’s Meeting: Do What You Are Good At, Remove Toxic People And Be Kind

Andrea Zanon Confidente
4 min readMay 12, 2023
https://www.benzinga.com/23/05/32369349/lessons-from-berkshire-warren-buffett-2023-shareholders-meeting-do-what-you-are-good-at-remove-toxic

As I arrived in Omaha on May 4th to attend Warren Buffett Berkshire & Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) shareholders’ meeting, my 7th attendance, I realized something was different this year. The crowd was larger as the travelling restriction from Covid disappeared. There was also a generally positive atmosphere all around. Thousands of newcomers joined the meeting as they believe we are approaching the end of the Warren Buffett and Charlie Monger era. The two billionaire investors are respectively 92 and 99 years old.

Investors, family offices, insurance groups, endowments and hedge funds gather in Omaha annually during this time of the year to network, share business insights, make deals, and most importantly get market strategies and wisdom from the two billionaire investors. As I went for business dinners, I also spotted the usual attendees including Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple.

Business and Life advice: Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett and vice chairman Charlie Munger gave away the usual business and life advice during Saturday’s annual meeting. Munger’s “great lesson in life” is to cut out toxic people who can hinder your path to success.” Munger continued and said “It’s so simple to spend less than you earn, and invest…

--

--

Andrea Zanon Confidente

Performance advisor with over 20 years experience across entrepreneurship, sustainability and partnership. Now focusing helping people investing in themselves