Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke. So the savings and loans went broke, the government stepped in, paid off depositors, and now… — 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… — 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… — 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
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
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… — 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
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
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
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
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… — 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
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
We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share
Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually. — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share
When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign for a… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share
