We have a passion for keeping things simple.

The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

Avoid evil, particularly if they're attractive members of the opposite sex.

We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.

When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism.

We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.