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 never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

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.

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.

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.

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

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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.

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

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

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

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

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 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.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially – I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

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.

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.

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

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

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

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

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

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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

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.

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership structure is more shaded toward protecting the financial professionals who broker the deals.

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

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.