If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

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.

It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.

If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

It's never paid to bet against America.