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.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

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.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

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

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there’s too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.

The Nasdaq bubble and crash were followed by the real estate bubble then subprime crash, which led to the unprecedented printing of trillions of dollars in an attempt to prevent a global depression.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

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

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

There’s 20 companies that I have investments in – some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

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 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.

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.

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

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

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

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

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.

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.

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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

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

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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

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.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

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.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

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

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.

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.

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

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

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

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

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

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

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

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.