Howard Warren Buffett Quotes
Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.
The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States.
The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. They can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time.
I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.
Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.
The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.
The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.
We have a terrific economy, it's like a great athlete that's had a cardiac arrest.
When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.
Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually.
I think it's terrible for people in effect to say that income from investment should be taxed at a much lower rate than income from labor.
People love leverage when it's working. I mean, it's so easy to borrow money from a guy at X and put it out at X.
