They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

It's a nightmare to administer some of this sort of thing, but I want to tell the shareholders of Berkshire, to the percent we own marketable securities or things for which there are market, even if those markets - I want to tell them what it's all about.

If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.

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

We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.