I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
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.
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
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.
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
