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" Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does. "

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" I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. "

" We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. "

" There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it. "

" If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it. "

" You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing. "

" It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. "

" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "

" When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. "

" Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. "

" The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body. "

" Beware of geeks bearing formulas. "

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

" Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. "

" The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. "

" I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board. "

" Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. "

" In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. "

" 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. "

" Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. "

" We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. "

" Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. "

" We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. "

" Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. "

" You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it. "

" Value is what you get. "

" You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. "

" Our favorite holding period is forever. "

" I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. "

" I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it. "

" I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game. "