Comments on: The “Missing” Berkshire Hathaway Letters (1969-1976)

By: Gordon Wiebe

Gordon Wiebe — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:58:35 +0000

Joe, If you still have these available, could you forward them to me?

Thx.

By: Yildiz

Yildiz — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:03:33 +0000

Hi, i write from germany. I am interested in Berkshire´s annual letters from before 1970. When i wanted to download i saw broken links/ errors. So can you help me? Where can i find these letters again? Thanks to you from germany.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:29:13 +0000

I would appreciate it if you would not mind sending the 1973-1976 letters in pdf.

Thank you.

By: nemo

nemo — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:32:10 +0000

In Appendix III of “The Midas Touch” (by John Train, 1987) there are some extracts from the early letters. One or two of those extracts purport to be from the 1970 letter.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:58:32 +0000

I was thinking that just because you disagree with something, doesn’t mean it’s inappropriate to take advantage of it while it’s still moral and legal. Taxes are inevitable, and where they come from is always debatable. He was fortunate to make a fortune partly helped by avoiding taxes via earnings that came from carried interest/capital gains in his early career. The fact that he disagrees with this as a way to structure the tax system doesn’t preclude the idea that he would do everything possible to gain from it while it was possible to do so. It does make the feat somewhat unlikely to ever be repeated, though, if you see tax structures balancing tax rates on carried interest and earnings in the future. Sadly for people who can compound capital better than they can earn it as salary.

By: nemo

nemo — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:40:07 +0000

The New Yorker ran an article recently which howled against the special tax rules for “carried interests” (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2010/03/15/100315ta_talk_surowiecki). Warren Buffett was quoted in this article, in support of the author’s thesis. Curiously, Mr Buffett made his first $25 million from his carried interest in the Buffett Partnership Limited. Presumably he took advantage of the very tax concession which he now opposes!

By: Jamie Hughes

Jamie Hughes — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:30:03 +0000

Would love the letters in PDF if you could be so kind. Thanks in advance for your time

By: Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Charlie Munger–Shareholder letters 1957-1970 | Jeff Widman (.com)

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:52:11 +0000

[...] (Note: You can find PDF’s of the more recent letters (post 1977) here: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html, and the text of the 1969-1976 letters here: http://stableboyselections.com/2008/08/25/the-missing-berkshire-hathaway-letters-1969-1976/.) [...]

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:57:50 +0000

Are these letters still available? Links appear to not work for me :0(

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:06:36 +0000

Did you ever find the 1970 letter?