I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

I've argued with the senators and congressmen I've talked to. You don't want to be too little too late. If you buy them at the right price, you may be buying two trillion of face value.

The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.

I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.