Warren Buffett, whom the world knows as the best stock market investor, wasn’t as famous in 1969. But he was already a millionaire then, and was on the verge of retiring from his investing career.
Till then, Buffett was managing his private investment firm – Buffett Partnership – and was doing pretty well for his investors.
But in May 1969, he wrote a heavy-hearted and an apologetic letter to the members of his partnership, warning them of his “intention to retire.”
Buffett complained about the “seemingly barren investment world” and the “increasingly short-term oriented” speculative market.
That environment, he said, had “generally become more negative and frustrating as time has passed.”
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