I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent of the total taxes on individuals. We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it. — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share
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 you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because anything times zero is zero. But it's reinforcing when the people around you are doing… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share
There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet. — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year. [...] And when somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money,… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share
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… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean, the job is Pearl Harbor. And you better not spends weeks and weeks and weeks trying to assign blame or deciding on… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is, and he's doing these things, you know, and he's getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren't doing… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share
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… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
