The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

— Warren Buffett

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

— Warren Buffett

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.

— Warren Buffett

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.

— Warren Buffett

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

— Warren Buffett

To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job

— Warren Buffett

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

— Warren Buffett

We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.

— Warren Buffett

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

— Warren Buffett

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.

— Warren Buffett