Quotes About Wealth

It is not greed that drives the but envy.

Stay away from the mentality of using the credit card compulsorily and invest on yourself. Wealth has not created mankind but mankind has created wealth. Live your life in the simplest manner possible.

Don't work for money, make money work for you.

I've never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need.

Charlie and I would follow a buy-and-hold policy even if we ran a tax-exempt institution.

Some time ago Ken Galbraith, in his witty and insightful The Great Crash, coined a new economic term: "the bezzle," defined as the current amount of undiscovered embezzlement. This financial creature has a magical quality: The embezzlers are richer by the amount of the bezzle, while the embezzlees do not yet feel poorer.

Productive assets such as farms, real estate and, yes, business ownership produce wealth — lots of it. Most owners of such properties will be rewarded. All that's required is the passage of time, an inner calm, ample diversification and a minimization of transactions and fees.

I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing.

What's out of sight, however, should not be out of mind: Those unrecorded retained earnings are usually building value — lots of value — for Berkshire.

Leaving the question of price aside, the best business to own is one that over an extended period can employ large amounts of incremental capital at very high rates of return.

It's class warfare; my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.

Some Thoughts About Investing

If you are not happy being in the top one tenth of one percent wealthiest people on earth, being in the top one hundreth of one percent isn't going to do anything for you.

If you invested in a low-cost index fund--where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years--you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

In business, I look for economic castles protected by unreachable moats.

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 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.

My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people. The Roanokes are rich like pharoahs and crazier'n a snake-fucking baby.

That's what you should be worrying about. Idiots with all the money, plowing it into building a thing just because they can.

The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people.

Fuck America and get rich like astronauts.

if you can afford college, there's no need to go.

Whether it's your health, wealth, happiness, or any other element of your entire life experience, it is essential to keep in mind the importance of the movement of your attention. You must be obstinate and persistent in not allowing the viewpoints or information of others to alter your inner world. You know what you wish to become and what you would like to manifest for yourself.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.