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

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

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.

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

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

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

The sinews of war are infinite 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.

People everywhere love Windows.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

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

I’m a cash flow guy. If it doesn’t make me money today, forget about it.

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.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I’m a real estate guy.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

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

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

Money has a language of its own.

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

I suppose Virgin is an unusual brand in that I suspect we’re the only ‚way of life‘ brand in the world. We’re one of maybe the top 30 best known brands in the world, yet if you look at the other 29, they all specialize in one area. Whether it’s Google, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, etc., they all generally specialize in one area.

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.

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

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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.

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

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

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.

The future is purchased by the present.

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

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

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

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can’t type. They can’t create documents.

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.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

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

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

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.

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

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

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.

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

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

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

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