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

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

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

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

The sinews of war are infinite money.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

I saw a bank that said ’24 Hour Banking‘, but I don’t have that much time.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

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

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

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

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 one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.

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.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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

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.

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

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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

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.

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

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.

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

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

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

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

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

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

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

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

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.

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

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

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.

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

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

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.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.