I will be useful if there’s a panic in the market because I don’t get fearful when things go down in price or everybody else gets scared.’ — Warren Buffett, outgoing CEO, Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett stunned Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Buffett has sung Cook's praise in the past, too. In his 2021 letter to Berkshire shareholders, he wrote, "Tim Cook, Apple's brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim's managerial touch as well."