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title: "Berkshire Hathaway shares hit eight-month high"
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description: "Berkshire Hathaway shares reached an eight-month high, with potential for further gains if they catch up to the S&P 500. In a separate discussion, Warren Buffett explained his refusal to use his friendships or influence to solicit favors or donations from associates like Bill Gates or Jimmy Buffett, stating he does not leverage personal relationships for such purposes."
datetime: "2026-08-01T14:41:54.000Z"
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# Berkshire Hathaway shares hit eight-month high

**AUDIENCE MEMBER**: Several weeks from now I'll be before \[Florida\] Governor \[Jeb\] Bush with the Friends of Cypress Gardens. We have a website ... trying to keep a developer from clear-cutting the trees in Cypress Gardens, a national treasure.

And my question is, would you consider contacting your "cousin," \[musician\] Jimmy Buffett, about possibly helping us in some way? ...

**WARREN BUFFETT**: I get asked to contact — probably the one I get asked to contact the most is Bill Gates, but I get asked to contact all kinds of people.

And I mean, everybody is slipping me envelopes with letters in them, sending things to the office and saying, "Won't you get this person?" and all they can say is no.

I don't do — I don't make requests of my friends, basically, for anything.

And I just — I would spend the rest of my life doing it. They would feel — I would never know — (applause) — you know, what they were doing —

You know, I would never know what they were doing because I was asking versus what they really felt.

I mean it's an impossible — from my standpoint at least — that's an impossible game to get into, in terms of that.

I mean when \[Washington Post publisher\] Kay Graham was alive, everybody, you know, wanted her for one reason or another. And they've all got causes.

And, frankly, they, you know, they want to use me to get her, or Jimmy Buffett, or whomever, to say yes to something that they're saying yes to, partially, because they feel they don't want to say no to me.

And I, you know, that — I just don't want to use my friendship for that purpose, frankly.

And I don't do it, even for things that I strongly believe in, myself...

I've never had one of those honorary dinners where they send out, you know, to all the suppliers to Berkshire and everything and start leaning on them and saying, you know, "We're honoring Warren."

Well, hell, if they want to honor me, they can honor me without soliciting all my friends for money. I mean, I don't consider that much of an honor if the reason they picked me was because I got rich friends.

So, I just don't do that.

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