Bill Gates created one of the world’s most successful companies and built a huge fortune in the process, but even billionaires get tired of sitting in meetings every day.

The 68-year-old Microsoft co-founder’s working days are meticulously planned. “His schedule, even his free time, was broken down into five-minute blocks,” wrote New York Times correspondent Anuprita Dash in the book “Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and his Quest to Shape the World.”

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Despite his demanding schedule, which included lecturing on public health policy and back-to-back meetings, there were days when he sought a … break from his responsibilities at his old friend Warren Buffett, according to Business Insider.

In her book, Dash wrote that Gates was taking his private jet to Omaha “just to visit Buffett and get away from such a scheduled life.”

“When Buffett would ask Gates why he couldn’t control his life and live it the way he wanted to, Gates would just shrug: “Bill likes to have a schedule, I don’t,” Buffett said in an email,” Dash wrote.

Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, sometimes even picked Gates up at the airport so they could meet “just for a little while,” according to the book.

After Gates divorced Melinda French Gates in 2021, Buffett resigned from the Gates Foundation, and the New York Times reported that their friendship has cooled over the years.

Representatives of Gates and Buffett did not respond in a timely manner to Business Insider’s request for comment.

Gates has previously praised Buffett’s more “relaxed approach” to programming.

“It took me a very long time to realize that you don’t have to fill every second of your schedule to be successful,” Gates wrote in a Threads post in May. “This is a lesson I could have learned much earlier if I had paid more attention to Warren Buffett’s calendar.”