{"id":172203,"date":"2025-12-07T11:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/172203\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T11:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:15:07","slug":"warren-buffett-business-titan-and-cover-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/172203\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett: Business titan and cover star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett\u2019s face\u2014always smiling, whether he\u2019s slurping\u00a0 a milkshake, brandishing a lasso, or palling around with fellow multibillionaire Bill\u00a0Gates\u2014has graced the cover of Fortune more than a dozen\u00a0times. And it\u2019s no wonder: Buffett has been a towering figure in both business and\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>investing for much of his\u2014and Fortune\u2019s\u201495 years on earth. (The magazine first hit newsstands in February 1930; Buffett was born that August.) As Geoff Colvin writes in this issue, Buffett\u2019s investing genius manifested early, and he bought his first stock at age 11. By Colvin\u2019s calculations, over the 60 years since Buffett took control of his company, <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/berkshire-hathaway\/\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/berkshire-hathaway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Berkshire Hathaway<\/a>, its returns have outpaced the S&amp;P 500 by more than 100 to one.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buffett has always had a special relationship with Fortune, particularly with legendary writer and editor Carol Loomis, who profiled him many times, and to whom he broke the news of his paradigm-shifting moves in philanthropy in 2006 and 2010. The end of an era is upon us, as Buffett on Dec. 31 will step down from his role as Berkshire\u2019s CEO. We\u2019re grateful to have been along for the ride.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-cy=\"article-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"transition-opacity duration-300 lazyload wp-image-4372960 not-prose w-full impression-element\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 683 1024'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR4nGNgYAAAAAMAASsJTYQAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Warren-Buffett-covers-2009-and-2010.jpg\"\/>Warren Buffett on the cover of Fortune in 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Cover photographs by David Yellen (2009), and Art Streiber (2010)<\/p>\n<p><img data-cy=\"article-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"transition-opacity duration-300 lazyload wp-image-4372959 not-prose w-full impression-element\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 683 1024'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR4nGNgYAAAAAMAASsJTYQAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Warren-Buffett-covers-2003-and-2006.jpg\"\/>Warren Buffett on the cover of Fortune in 2003 and 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Cover photographs by Michael O\u2019Neill (2003), and Ben Baker (2006)<\/p>\n<p><img data-cy=\"article-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"transition-opacity duration-300 lazyload wp-image-4372958 not-prose w-full impression-element\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 683 1024'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR4nGNgYAAAAAMAASsJTYQAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Warren-Buffett-covers-2001-and-2002.jpg\"\/>Warren Buffett on the cover of Fortune in 2001 and 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Cover photographs by Michael O\u2019Neill<\/p>\n<p><img data-cy=\"article-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"transition-opacity duration-300 lazyload wp-image-4372957 not-prose w-full impression-element\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 683 1024'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR4nGNgYAAAAAMAASsJTYQAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Warren-Buffett-covers-1986-and-1998-vertical.jpg\"\/>Warren Buffett on the cover of Fortune in 1986 and 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Cover photographs by Alex Kayser (1986) and Michael O\u2019Neill (1998)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett\u2019s face\u2014always smiling, whether he\u2019s slurping\u00a0 a milkshake, brandishing a lasso, or palling around with fellow 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