historicalMeeting2025-05-05conf:low
2025 Annual Meeting Highlight Reel
“But the day I was born, the Dow Jones was at 240. And my first, that was August 30th, 1930.”
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Dow Jones Industrial Average
46 mentions across the corpus · positive 3 · negative 0 · neutral 39 · historical 4
neutralMeeting2025-05-05conf:medium
Morning Session - 2025 Meeting
“The Dow Jones average at 381 in September of 1929. It got down to 42.”
neutralMeeting2020-05-04conf:high
2020 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting - Part 1
“the Dow Jones average, which we'll use through this, at that time, that's the one everybody paid attention to”
neutralMeeting2020-05-04conf:low
2020 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting - Part 2 - Q&A
“Dow Jones went to zero, the Footsie went to zero, and the Niki and so on”
neutralInterview2020-02-25conf:low
Buffett: Coronavirus threat shouldn't change how you invest | February 24, 2020
“right now the Dow is indicated to open down about 800 or 830 points”
neutralInterview2018-08-30conf:low
“the S&P, the Russell, and the NASDAQ, the Dow's not far off”
neutralMeeting2018-05-05conf:low
"All you had to do was figure that America was going to do well over time"
“the New York Times put the Dow Jones Industrial average below all the averages they calculated”
neutralInterview2017-01-30conf:high
Warren Buffett's Investment Strategy: How to Live and Invest like a Legend (Full Interview)
“the start of the 20th century the dow jones average was a 66 and it ended at 11400”
positiveLetter2016-07-01conf:high
2016 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“During the 20th century the Dow-Jones Industrials advanced from 66 to 11,497, a 17,320% capital gain”
positiveMeeting2014-05-03conf:medium
Morning Session - 2014 Meeting
“if you look at the Dow Jones average, as one entity...they've done extraordinarily well over time”
positiveLetter2013-07-01conf:high
2013 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“In the 20th Century, the Dow Jones Industrials index advanced from 66 to 11,497, paying a rising stream of dividends”
neutralMeeting2011-04-30conf:low
Morning Session - 2011 Meeting
“there's never been a year when the Dow Jones average has not ended up below 200 and it's above 200 now”
historicalLetter2009-07-01conf:high
2009 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“The Dow closed the day of the letter at 7,063 and finished the year at 10,428.”
historicalOp-Ed2008-10-16conf:low
“During the Depression, the Dow hit its low, 41, on July 8, 1932... the market had already advanced 30 percent.”
neutralLetter2008-07-01conf:high
2008 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“the Dow Jones Industrials rose from 66 to 11,497”
neutralInterview2008-07-01conf:high
Warren Buffett 2008 Interview (Ivey Archive)
“If you look at the twentieth century the Dow went from 66 to 11,000.”
historicalLetter2008-07-01conf:low
2008 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“the Dow-Jones Industrial Average increased by about 175-fold, mainly because of this retained-earnings factor”
neutralLetter2005-07-01conf:high
2005 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“the Dow increased from 65.73 to 11,497.12 in the 20th century, and that amounts to a gain of 5.3% compounded annually”
neutralMeeting2002-05-04conf:low
Morning Session - 2002 Meeting
“including a number of companies in the Dow Jones 30 industrials”
neutralLetter1987-07-01conf:high
1987 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“The Dow advanced 2.3% for the year.”
neutralLetter1978-07-01conf:high
1978 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“During this same interval the Dow-Jones Industrial Average declined from 852 to 805.”
neutralLetter1970-07-01conf:high
1970 Buffett Partnership Annual Letter
“At the beginning of the year, the Dow-Jones Industrials stood at 499 and at the end of the year it was at 435”
neutralLetter1970-07-01conf:high
1970 Buffett Partnership Annual Letter
“performance better than that of the Dow-Jones for the period we hold it”
neutralLetter1970-07-01conf:high
1970 Buffett Partnership Annual Letter
“The Dow-Jones Industrial Average, undoubtedly the most widely used index of stock market behavior, presented a somewhat faulty picture in 1959.”
neutralLetter1967-10-09conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1967-10-09
“The Dow-Jones Industrial Average, undoubtedly the most widely used index of stock market behavior, presented a somewhat faulty picture in 1959.”
neutralLetter1966-07-12conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1966-07-12
“The Dow-Jones Industrial Average, undoubtedly the most widely used index of stock market behavior, presented a somewhat faulty picture in 1959.”
neutralLetter1966-01-20conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1966-01-20
“The Dow-Jones Industrial Average, undoubtedly the most widely used index of stock market behavior, presented a somewhat faulty picture in 1959.”
neutralLetter1966-01-20conf:low
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1966-01-20
“the Dow-Jones Industrials have retraced over half of their 1959 advance”
neutralLetter1966-01-20conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1966-01-20
“the Dow-Jones Industrial Average which had advanced from 583 to 679, or 16.4%”
neutralLetter1966-01-20conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1966-01-20
“During the first half of 1961, the overall gain of the Dow-Jones Industrial Average was about 13%, including dividends.”
neutralLetter1965-01-18conf:low
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1965-01-18
“the Dow-Jones Industrials stood at 499 and at the end of the year it was at 435 for a loss of 64 points”
neutralLetter1965-01-18conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1965-01-18
“The Dow-Jones Industrial Average, undoubtedly the most widely used index of stock market behavior, presented a somewhat faulty picture in 1959.”
neutralLetter1965-01-18conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1965-01-18
“the Dow-Jones Industrials have retraced over half of their 1959 advance”
neutralLetter1965-01-18conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1965-01-18
“the Dow-Jones Industrial Average which had advanced from 583 to 679, or 16.4%”
neutralLetter1965-01-18conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1965-01-18
“I doubt that we will continue to exceed the results of the DJIA”
neutralLetter1965-01-18conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1965-01-18
“overall gain of the Dow-Jones Industrial Average was about 13%, including dividends”
neutralLetter1964-07-08conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1964-07-08
“At the beginning of the year, the Dow-Jones Industrials stood at 499 and at the end of the year it was at 435”
neutralLetter1964-01-18conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1964-01-18
“The Dow-Jones Industrial Average, undoubtedly the most widely used index of stock market behavior, presented a somewhat faulty picture in 1959.”
neutralLetter1964-01-18conf:low
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1964-01-18
“the Dow-Jones Industrials have retraced over half of their 1959 advance”
neutralLetter1964-01-18conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1964-01-18
“the overall gain of the Dow-Jones Industrial Average was about 13%, including dividends”
neutralLetter1963-11-06conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1963-11-06
“At the beginning of the year, the Dow-Jones Industrials stood at 499 and at the end of the year it was at 435”
neutralLetter1962-11-01conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1962-11-01
“The Dow-Jones Industrial average advanced from 435 to 583 which, after adding back dividends of about 20 points, gave an overall gain of 38.5%”
neutralLetter1960-07-01conf:high
1960 Buffett Partnership Annual Letter
“The Dow-Jones Industrial Average, undoubtedly the most widely used index of stock market behavior, presented a somewhat faulty picture in 1959.”
neutralLetter1960-07-01conf:low
1960 Buffett Partnership Annual Letter
“the Dow-Jones Industrials have retraced over half of their 1959 advance”
neutralLetter1957-07-01conf:high
1957 Buffett Partnership Annual Letter
“At the beginning of the year, the Dow-Jones Industrials stood at 499 and at the end of the year it was at 435”
neutralLetter1956-05-05conf:high
Buffett Partnership Letter — 1956-05-05
“At the beginning of the year, the Dow-Jones Industrials stood at 499 and at the end of the year it was at 435”