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The bottom line is that China is moving in a completely different direction than what Deng Xiaoping instituted when they started the big reform program.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Dairy Queen says Dairy Queen doesn't know the price of oil next year. Nobody does, but we decided it made sense.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Lose money for the firm, and I will be understanding ; lose a shred of reputation for the firm, and I will be ruthless.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Berkshire will be the perfect permanent home for Alleghany, a company that I have closely observed for 60 years, i am particularly delighted that I will once again work together with Joseph Brandon, Joseph Brandon.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Berkshire Hathaway CEO're looking at an 89-year-old guy that's barely beginning to be with Berkshire Hathaway.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is scary stuff, i don't think it should affect what you do in stocks.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There's always trouble coming, the real question is where are those businesses going to be in five or 10 years.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You certainly can't predict the market by reading the daily newspaper, if you look at the present situation, ... you get more for your money in stocks than bonds.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
So understand, taxing income is not going to get you where you need to be the way taxing wealth does.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We missed it entirely, incidentally, we never owned a share of Amazon.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
They have more of a taste of leverage than we do… but they also ... in certain types of situations ... would be way better operators.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I would like to see Berkshire Hathaway better known in the UK and Europe ... I would hope they would think of Berkshire more often when businesses are for sale, we're hoping for a deal in the UK and or in Europe no matter how Brexit comes out.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Yeah, I've been a fan, and I've been an idiot for not buying.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They just have to come from someplace (outside Wells) and they shouldn't come from Wall Street. They probably shouldn't come from JPMorgan or Goldman Sachs.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We continue, nevertheless, to hope for an elephant-sized acquisition.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
After I started buying it, I felt I still didn't understand the business, particularly after my experience with IBM, I don't think I understand exactly where the cloud is going.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I was wrong in a couple of ways on Kraft Heinz, we overpaid for Kraft.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think generally third party candidates are going to hurt one side or the other and I think they're more likely to hurt the side that they favor because they're closer to that view, i hope no third party candidate runs that pulls any significant amount of votes. I think third party candidates can thwart the will of the people.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think he would be a very good president, he and I disagree on some things. But I think that he knows how to run things.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
These moves were overdue, berkshire is now far better managed than when I alone was supervising operations. Ajit and Greg have rare talents, and Berkshire blood flows through their veins.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I love our newspapers and am passionate about the vital role they serve in our communities, although the challenges in publishing are clear, I believe we can benefit by joining efforts.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The resistance will be unbelievable, and if we fail, at least we tried.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Jamie, Jeff and I are confident that we have found in Atul the leader who will get this important job done.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Glide really takes people who have hit rock bottom and helps bring them back.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I think we'll have a CEO within a couple of months, we want our employees to get better medical services at lower cost ... The resistance will be unbelievable, and if we fail, at least we tried.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The people at 3G are great, great managers, and they are wonderful partners.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
If a $100 billion deal came along that Charlie and I really liked, we'd get it done.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
If you don't understand it, you get much more excited, people like to speculate, they like to gamble.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It does create a rising price, creates more buyers ... If you don't understand it, you get much more excited, people like to speculate, they like to gamble.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
This is me moving at top speed, thank you for everything, Warren.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The United States and China are going to be the two superpowers of the world, economically and in other ways, for a long, long, long time.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Wells Fargo is a company that proved the efficacy of incentives, and it's just that they just had the wrong incentives.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It is just too big and too obvious ... that the benefits are huge and the world is dependent on it in a major way for its progress, that two intelligent countries (would) do something extremely foolish, we both may do things that are mildly foolish from time to time. There is some give and take.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
If you look at Apple, I think it earns almost twice as much as the second most profitable company in the United States.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I'm under audit, too, and I would be delighted to meet him anyplace, anytime, before the election, i'll bring my tax return, he can bring his tax return ... and let people ask us questions.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Now I’ve got news for him, I'm under audit too and I would be delighted to meet him anyplace, anytime, before the election.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There could well be more business relationships in the future, but beyond that it's a friendship.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We buy a very few loans unrelated to the manufactured home business, and Quicken is the one we buy them from.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Anything that makes Volvo Cars safer is very pro-social, and it's bad for the auto insurance industry, volvo Cars have been made way, way safer, but now when you start making the driver safer, that would be a big, big jump, and Volvo Cars will happen some day, and when it happens there will be a lot less auto insurance written.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Anything that makes cars safer is very pro-social, and it's bad for the auto insurance industry, cars have been made way, way safer, but now when you start making the driver safer, that would be a big, big jump, and that will happen some day, and when it happens there will be a lot less auto insurance written.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s a fascinating movie to watch. I don’t try to make money off the movie, if currency in a bank is worth less than currency in your hands or in a mattress, that could produce something in the way of behavior that nobody has ever anticipated.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Costco was a very, very, very valuable co brand to have for American Express, but that value wasn’t limitless.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s a fascinating movie to watch, i don’t try to make money off the movie.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You just have to sit back and let American industry do its job for you.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Now that may sound like a terrible result for hedge funds, but it's not a terrible result for the hedge fund managers.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There's been far, far, far more money made by people in Wall Street through salesmanship abilities than through investment abilities.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In my view, the business model of Valeant was enormously flawed.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We've owned stocks that we've lost money in, if I'm wrong, you sell them out and take a big loss. We've done that on a few occasions with stocks and bonds over the years.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What has happened is that despite this incredible bounty, millions and millions and millions of Americans have been left behind, the game has been stacked in their direction. That is a primary reason... why I am going to be so delighted when Secretary Clinton takes the oath of office.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Mark and Priscilla are breaking the mold with this breathtaking commitment, a combination of brains, passion and resources on this scale will change the lives of millions. On behalf of future generations, I thank them.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We bought it in the first quarter, and normally I wouldn't tell you this, but we bought some in the third quarter.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They didn't indicate they were particularly receptive, but they also indicated that they would listen.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I was very impressed by Mark, and of course I was impressed by the company.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You've got to give credit to Todd Combs for this deal.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When you get a chance to buy a wonderful company, there is usually some reason why you are getting that chance and perhaps a slump in oil and gas helps us in this case.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In terms of price-earnings multiple going in, this is right there at the top.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This takes us out of the market for an' elephant' for 12 months or so... but we will be buying a few small things in the next six months.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Until the reports started coming out I had never heard of the guy (Proto) who is making the claims about the Greek Island.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Nobody who's donated to Glide has ever felt short-changed.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Glide helped me understand just how much a life can be transformed by unconditional love and some real material help.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think the dollar will be the world's reserve currency 50 years from now.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we get back to normal interest rates, stocks at these prices will look high.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I make no apologies whatsoever for Clayton's lending terms.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If somebody told me that I live a year longer by eating nothing but broccoli and asparagus from now on ... every day will seem like as long. I'll stick with the Cheetos and the Coke.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If I were running (GM), would I be buying stock? I don't know whether I would or not, but it doesn't bother me at all that she's not doing it, the idea of trying to do something now that gets a little pop in the stock is just - should not be on her agenda or the shareholders' agenda.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I totally disagree with the idea of putting somebody on the board who has an option on some other people's stock which is only good for two years, it's just not the way to run a business.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There have been no surprises at IBM since we started buying it a few years ago, we expected revenue to come down. We expected a year like this where foreign exchange would take a whack off revenues.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He's a first-class human being, there's a lot of smart people in this world but some of them do some very dumb things. He's a smart guy who will never do a dumb thing. I've never heard him say anything that didn't make sense.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You can sum up Don Keough's life in three words: Everybody loved him.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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