Buffett’s 60th annual letter has all the excellent investment wisdom that readers have come to expect. But if you read it only to glean investment tips, you’ll miss a valuable

Stick to the plan of long-term investing during market downturns. Keep buying shares of great companies and exchange-traded funds as the market declines, knowing that if you measure your returns in decades, you'll look back and know you bought at a discount.

Buffett’s net worth has jumped more than $25 billion in 2025, according to Bloomberg, thanks to a roughly 18 percent gain in Berkshire’s stock price so far this year. The increase has pushed Buffett past Microsoft (MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates on the list of the world’s richest people.