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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Money has a language of its own.

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.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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

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

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

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

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

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

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

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

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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

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.

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.

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.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

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

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

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 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.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.