If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.

If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness.