Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing .

You don't want to be like the motion picture exec who had so many people at his funeral, but they were there just make sure he was dead. Or how about the guy who, at his funeral, the priest said, "Won't anyone stand up and say anything nice for the deceased?" and finally someone said, "Well, his brother was worse."

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

Don't do cocaine. Don't race trains. And avoid AIDS situations.

We have never had the will to enforce the immigration laws. What you see is what you'll continue to get.

I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting.

Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.