Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.