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

I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.

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

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

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.

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.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

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.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

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

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.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

I just don’t like mutual funds. I think they’re a rip-off.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

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

Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.

Money has a language of its own.

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

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

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

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

I don’t like L.A. It’s just not fun. I don’t know why, but I just don’t get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‚intrinsic value‘ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

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

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

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

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.