Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

— Warren Buffett

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

— Warren Buffett

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

— Warren Buffett

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

— Warren Buffett

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

— Warren Buffett

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

— Warren Buffett

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

— Warren Buffett

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

— Warren Buffett

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

— Warren Buffett

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

— Warren Buffett