A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust.

I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

My net worth is the market value of holdings less the tax payable upon sale. The liability is just as real as the asset unless the value of the asset declines (ouch), the asset is given away (no comment), or I die with it. The latter course of action would appear to at least border on a Pyrrhic victory.