EXHIBIT 4.11

                     BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY FINANCE CORPORATION

                                OFFER TO EXCHANGE

        $750,000,000 PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF ITS 3.375% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2008
     UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED BY BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC., WHICH HAVE BEEN
   REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, FOR ANY AND ALL 3.375% SENIOR
      NOTES DUE 2008, UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED BY BERKSHIRE HATHWAY 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

                                           _____________________________________
                                                       Signatures(s)



Securities which are to be tendered:

Tender all of the Outstanding Notes

        Aggregate Principal Amount*

[ ]     Outstanding Notes ____________

________________________________________________
             Name(s) (Please Print)

________________________________________________
                    Address

________________________________________________
                    Zip Code

________________________________________________
          Area Code and Telephone No.

Dated:__________________, 2004

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

                                       2