If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

I bought my first stock in 1942, in the summer of '42. I was 11 years old. And so 75 years have gone by. And I have never known what the market's going to do the next day. And that's not my game. My game is to decide whether I'm in the right economy, which America's definitely been ever since that time. The Dow has gone from 100 to 21,000 during that time. And no matter what the headlines say, or terrible things are happening - we were losing the war in the Pacific when I first bought stocks.

Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

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

Never depend on a single source of income.

I think what people understand there probably - well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ].