Buffett said he was responsible for the purchase and for the operation until Greg Abel took over.

This is a claim about what Buffett said at the 2024-05-05 annual meeting. True: the transcript or recording shows him saying, in these words or ones of the same meaning, that the purchase and the operation were his responsibility until Greg Abel took over. Mostly true: he said this with small differences in wording that do not change the meaning. Mixed: he took responsibility for only one of the two (the purchase or the operation). Mostly false: he said something related but with a different meaning, e.g. putting the responsibility on others. False: he made no such statement.

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1. E1 2024Annual Meeting berkshireletters.com (third-party transcript site) · 6 May 2024

   “It is my responsibility for the purchase and for the operation up till Greg took over, but I think Ill let Greg answer that.”

2. E2 2024 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Annual Meeting Brown Advisory (notes by R. Hutchings Vernon, CFA)

   “May 4, 2024”

E1 is a third-party transcript of the 2024 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. In it Buffett says "It is my responsibility for the purchase and for the operation up till Greg took over," and then hands the question to Greg Abel. That matches the claimed quote, with only the contraction expanded, and covers both the purchase and the operation. E2 dates the meeting to May 4, 2024, but it adds nothing about what was said.