This Is the One Investing Rule Warren Buffett Won't Break -- and It Fully Explains His $174 Billion Warning to Wall Street

While some of the Oracle of Omaha's investing rules have proved fungible during his six decades as Berkshire Hathaway CEO, one of his key investment traits is unbendable.

Jun 23, 2025 - 08:44

This Is the One Investing Rule Warren Buffett Won't Break -- and It Fully Explains His $174 Billion Warning to Wall Street

For the last 60 years, Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) billionaire CEO, Warren Buffett, has been virtually unstoppable. Even with an occasional underperforming year sprinkled in here and there, the Oracle of Omaha has overseen an aggregate return in his company's Class A shares (BRK.A) of 5,884,143%, as of the closing bell on June 18. For the sake of comparison, the benchmark S&P 500 has climbed by around 40,000%, including dividends, since the mid-1960s.

Such an overwhelming outperformance of Wall Street's encompassing stock index has professional and everyday investors riding Buffett's coattails to long-term gains. This can be done by tracking Berkshire Hathaway's trading activity via quarterly filed Form 13Fs and mirroring it.

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Image source: The Motley Fool.