Our favorite holding period is forever.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

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

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.

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

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.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.