EXHIBIT 4.13

                     BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY FINANCE CORPORATION

                                OFFER TO EXCHANGE

        $400,000,000 PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF ITS 5.10% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2014
             UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED BY BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC.,
                           WHICH HAVE BEEN REGISTERED
 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, FOR ANY AND ALL 5.10% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2014,
              UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED BY BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC.

Instructions from Beneficial Owner

      The undersigned acknowledge(s) receipt of your letter and the enclosed
Prospectus and the related Letter of Transmittal in connection with the offer by
the Company to exchange the Exchange Notes for Outstanding Notes.

      This will instruct you to tender the principal amount of Outstanding Notes
indicated below held by you for the account of the undersigned, upon the terms
and subject to the conditions set forth in the Prospectus and the related Letter
of Transmittal.

      The undersigned represents that (i) the Exchange Notes acquired pursuant
to the Exchange Offer are being obtained in the ordinary course of the
undersigned's business, (ii) the undersigned is not engaging, does not intend to
engage, and has no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate
in the distribution of such Exchange Notes, (iii) the undersigned is not an
"affiliate," as defined under Rule 405 of the Securities Act, of the Company and
(iv) the undersigned is not acting on behalf of any person or entity that could
not truthfully make these statements. If the undersigned is a broker-dealer, it
acknowledges that it will deliver a copy of the Prospectus in connection with
any resale of the Exchange Notes.

                                                         Sign Here

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                                                        Signatures(s)



Securities which are to be tendered:

Tender all of the Outstanding Notes

     Aggregate Principal Amount*

 [ ] Outstanding Notes ____________

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        Name(s) (Please Print)

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            Address

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            Zip Code

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   Area Code and Telephone No.

Dated:__________________, 200[_]

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* Unless otherwise indicated, it will be assumed that all of the Outstanding
Notes listed are to be tendered.

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