Warren Buffett

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

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.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

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.

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.

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.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

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 only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.