One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.