Quotes from Howard Warren Buffett

The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign for a very thankless position. And he did it because his mother had instilled in him, if you are someone who has the capacity to make a great change, you have the responsibility.

The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. They can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time.

If I'm home, I'll be happy. And if I'm around family, and if I'm working on projects with friends, I don't know what else I'd want to be doing.

Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually.

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 X.

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 over trip, time over time, country over country, home after home we've been invited into, given tea, given food that people didn't have to give us, I mean all of these things.

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.