Always invest for the long term.

It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.

We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.

The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.

Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."