Warren Buffett, the legendary chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has famously avoided shorting stocks throughout his decades-long investing career, consistently expressing a philosophical aversion to the practice. He has frequently pointed out that short selling carries asymmetric risk—where potential gains are capped at one hundred percent while potential losses are theoretically infinite if a stock price skyrockets. Furthermore, shorting requires correct timing on top of correct thesis analysis, which he believes introduces unnecessary speculation that contradicts his patient, long-term, value-oriented compounding investment philosophy.