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> [Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing.As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/somebody-s-buying-these-treasury-bills-at-1-20th-of-one-percent-i/)

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> [Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing.And it reflects American's consumption ideas rather than its savings ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/somebody-s-buying-these-treasury-bills-at-1-20th-of-one-percent-i-2/)

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## More by Howard Warren Buffett

> [Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/somebody-s-buying-these-treasury-bills-at-1-20th-of-one-percent-i/)

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> [If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/if-you-owe-money-you-can-t-pay-them-out-you-just-pay-for-everything/)

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> [There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/there-are-more-living-organisms-in-a-tablespoon-of-highly-organic/)

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> [You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers on value. I think to just say, we're going to say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/you-get-in-a-lot-of-trouble-when-you-start-putting-fictitious-numbers/)

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> [If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/if-you-really-think-that-houses-prices-are-going-to-go-up-next-year/)

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> [People love leverage when it's working. I mean, it's so easy to borrow money from a guy at X and put it out at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/people-love-leverage-when-it-s-working-i-mean-it-s-so-easy-to-borrow/)

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> [I've spent so much time with my dad traveling and seeing the ground-level change that we've been able to make through philanthropy and trip…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/i-ve-spent-so-much-time-with-my-dad-traveling-and-seeing-the-ground/)

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> [The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/the-ingredients-that-made-this-country-you-know-the-miracle-of-the/)

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> [I mean, the job is Pearl Harbor. And you better not spends weeks and weeks and weeks trying to assign blame or deciding on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/i-mean-the-job-is-pearl-harbor-and-you-better-not-spends-weeks-and/)

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> [I mean people -- people don't get -- they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can't stand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/i-mean-people-people-don-t-get-they-don-t-get-smarter-about-things/)

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> [Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/somebody-s-buying-these-treasury-bills-at-1-20th-of-one-percent-i-2/)

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> [As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/as-long-as-you-have-markets-you-ll-have-excesses-people-went-crazy/)

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> [We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/we-had-the-great-depression-we-had-two-world-wars-we-had-the-flu/)

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> [Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/any-time-i-can-be-of-help-to-the-government-in-terms-of-giving-advice/)

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> [When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign for a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-warren-buffett/when-i-was-5-my-father-was-very-much-my-hero-and-he-ran-for-political/)

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