Buffett added that he believed the board of administrators could be “unanimously in favour of” his suggestion.
“I might nonetheless dangle round and will conceivably be helpful in a number of instances, however the last phrase could be what Greg mentioned in operations, in capital deployment, no matter it is likely to be,” he added.
Buffett remodeled Berkshire Hathaway from a medium-sized textile firm when he purchased it within the Sixties into an enormous conglomerate, now valued at greater than US$1 trillion and with liquid belongings of US$300 billion.
The corporate on Saturday reported first-quarter earnings of US$9.6 billion, down 14 per cent. That works out to US$4.47 per share, additionally down sharply.
Buffett’s web price as of Saturday is US$168.2 billion, in accordance with Forbes journal’s real-time wealthy checklist.