I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines.

The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me.

It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.

When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory