These Are 3 of the Richest Financial Influencers in 2025 — Here’s What You Can Learn from Them
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When it comes to accessible and engaging financial advice, “finfluencers” (or financial influencers) are all the rage. In fact, according to the World Economic Forum, finfluencers “may supersede traditional advice mediums in terms of popularity.”
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However, not all financial influencers are created equal. So which ones are worth listening to? Well, it’s fair to assume those with the highest net worth have a good idea what they’re doing. After all, the proof is in the dollar-laden pudding. With that said, here are three of the richest financial influencers as of 2025 — and what you can learn from them.
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett, the “Oracle of Omaha” and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway likely needs no introduction. With a current net worth of $146.6 billion, according to Forbes, Buffet is widely recognized as a prominent figure in value investing. He believes in looking for companies with growth potential, buying a stock below what it’s likely worth (relative to its intrinsic value) and then holding it for the long term. He has held American Express and Coca-Cola for decades, according to Investor’s Business Daily. For him, the message is clear: slow and steady wins the race.
Buffet is also an advocate for only buying stocks he understands. He requires a clear grasp of a company’s economics, future trajectory and competitive aspects before investing. For Buffet, this has meant sticking with solid, name-brand companies (like Bank of America and Chevron) and veering away from those that are overly complex or outside his “circle of competence.” This conservative investment approach allows for informed decisions and helps mitigate risk.
Additionally, Buffet encourages businesses to hire employees with intelligence and integrity to ensure ethical practices, and he advocates investors pay attention to facts over emotions to stay centered and in control when it comes to decision-making. He’s also a proponent of not cutting costs on the ground floor: buy a wonderful business at a fair price over a fair business at a wonderful price.
Buffet shares most of his knowledge and personal philosophies via shareholder letters, annual Berkshire Hathaway meetings and media appearances.
Ray Dalio
With a current net worth of $14 billion, per Forbes, Ray Dalio is the founder and CIO mentor at the investment management firm, Bridgewater Associates. Dalio has written several books on the principles of life and work, success, navigating debt and dealing with a changing world order. He essentially advocates for a multidisciplinary approach in matters regarding money.
In 2021, he produced an online personality assessment called PrinciplesYou. In a press release, he stated he created it because “knowing how you think and how others you interact with think is critical to getting what you want in both your personal life and in work.”
On the economic front, Dalio takes a macro view. He teaches that individuals can learn from the patterns and cycles of history and that these cycles are a result of the interaction between five forces: the debt cycle, internal conflict, a changing world order, climate and nature and technology.
“He believes that economies upward thrust and fall in predictable cycles,” stated Tim Stassi, owner and managing broker at Dwell One Realty.
“The trick is understanding where we are in that cycle so we can make smarter economic decisions.”
Dalio also advocates for transparency from the companies in which he invests. And his golden rule? Diversifying investments is essential for mitigating risk and delivering stable returns across various economic conditions. This has come to be known as the “All Weather” portfolio.
Michael Saylor
“Michael Saylor is best known as the Bitcoin Evangelist,” stated the founder at Thrivin Life, Lucas Barcelo. “He literally bet his entire company on the success of Bitcoin and unless you’ve been living under a rock, his bet paid off.”
The company Barcelo is referring to was MicroStrategy, a business and analytics software firm Saylor ran until August 2022. Saylor has a net worth valued at $8.8 billion according to Forbes.
In 2021, Saylor wrote the book, “The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything,” which analyzed trends in mobile technology, postulating mobile devices would completely shift how businesses and economies operated. (Spoiler alert: he wasn’t wrong).
He has often been called a visionary, potentially making his Bitcoin advocacy all the more salient. These days, he frequently appears as a guest on podcasts, YouTube videos and CNBC.
Saylor believes in making education accessible to underserved communities and, in 2008, he founded the nonprofit, Saylor Academy (formerly Saylor Foundation), with a stated mission: “to offer free and open online courses to all who want to learn.”
Saylor is a proponent of alternative investments over holding cash and believes Bitcoin will soon overtake gold in value. At BTC Prague 2024, Saylor outlined his “21 Rules of Bitcoin” which included holding Bitcoin for the long term and avoiding diversification into other assets. He considers Bitcoin “the first perfect money” and advocates breaking out of one’s current paradigm to fully understand it, believing people criticize Bitcoin only when they don’t understand how it works.
“Bitcoin is the casino where anybody who wants to play can keep winning.”
In a nutshell: Saylor says go hard on Bitcoin.
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