Investing legend Warren Buffett's holding company Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) has outperformed the market by thousands of percentages in its lifetime, including beating the market in 2022 with a 4% gain versus the S&P 500's 19% loss.

Berkshire Hathaway owns many whole companies, which are private, or become private when it takes them over. It also has large equity positions in around 40 publicly traded companies, and investors eagerly anticipate Berkshire's 13F filing, in which it details what stocks it bought or sold each quarter.

Investors who want to invest like Warren Buffett can buy shares of Berkshire Hathaway. But they can also buy stocks that Buffett buys, if those stocks fit into their personal investing plan, or follow some of his strategies and see how it helps them choose winning stocks. Even if your own investing approach looks different than Buffett's, you might want to keep in mind the two simple qualities he sees as essential to any business he invests in.

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