Warren Buffett is resigning as CEO but remaining chairman. He once said retiring would be 'unthinkable' and worse than death.

• Warren Buffett is successful the last agelong of his six-decade tally arsenic Berkshire Hathaway's CEO.

• But astatine 95, Buffett intends to stay Berkshire's president and assistance his successor.

• The capitalist has said helium loves Berkshire and status would beryllium "unthinkable."

Warren Buffett is days distant from stepping down arsenic Berkshire Hathaway's CEO, but astatine property 95, he's skipping status to enactment connected arsenic chairman. That's not a daze from the capitalist who "tap dances to work."

After revealing his resignation plans to Berkshire shareholders successful May, Buffett said helium would "still bent around" and "could conceivably beryllium useful" to his successor, Greg Abel.

"I'm not going to beryllium astatine location and ticker soap operas," Buffett told The Wall Street Journal aft his large reveal. "My interests are inactive the same."

In his Thanksgiving letter, Buffett said helium inactive works astatine Berkshire's Omaha office 5 days a week, and sometimes has a "useful idea" oregon gets approached with an offer.

Buffett's lasting dedication isn't surprising, arsenic he's famously devoted to Berkshire. Since taking power successful 1965, helium has transformed it from a failing textile mill into a world-beating conglomerate that owns scores of businesses specified arsenic Geico and NetJets, and immense stakes successful nationalist companies including Coca-Cola and Kraft Heinz.

"We've got the champion occupation successful the world," Buffett said astir himself and the precocious Charlie Munger during Berkshire's yearly gathering successful 2000. "We get to enactment with radical we similar and respect and spot each time of the year. We get to bash what we privation to do, the mode we privation to bash it."

Investing Berkshire's superior wrong and extracurricular the institution is the "most enjoyable happening to bash successful the world," Buffett said during the 2012 meeting. "I get to overgarment my ain painting," helium continued, adding that helium has "a batch of fun" with his coworkers.

Buffett has said for decades that status doesn't entreaty to him, and helium overmuch prefers to support moving arsenic agelong arsenic possible.

"Berkshire is my archetypal emotion and 1 that volition ne'er fade," helium wrote successful his 1991 shareholder letter, recalling that erstwhile a pupil asked erstwhile helium planned to retire, helium replied: "About 5 to 10 years aft I die."

Buffett said during Berkshire's 1996 gathering that the thought of retiring was "unthinkable" for him: "That would beryllium the worst. I deliberation decease would beryllium second."

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