Top 22 Howard Warren Buffett Quotes
#1. I think it's terrible for people in effect to say that income from investment should be taxed at a much lower rate than income from labor.
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#2. 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.
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#3. I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.
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#4. We have a terrific economy, it's like a great athlete that's had a cardiac arrest.
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#7. 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.
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#8. The American worker is more productive than he's ever been. We've got more people to do it. We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future. It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. This is a super athlete.
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#9. You could have these crazy Internet valuations in the late 1990s, but they prove themselves out in the market. The next day they were selling for more than they were the day before, and people said, you know, you're crazy if you don't get in on this. So it's very human.
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#10. Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.
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#14. 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.
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#15. When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.
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#16. The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States.
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#17. 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.
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#18. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.
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#19. When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything. There are times when cash buys more than other times, and this is one of the other times when it buys a fair amount more, so we use it.
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#20. I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp. That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially and preferred stock and that sort of thing.
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#21. I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done serving as county commissioner, at Archer Daniels Midland.
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#22. There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.
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