A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing.

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful. Lecturing to a group of students at Columbia U. He was 21 years old.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Like an oversexed guy in a whorehouse. Now is the time to invest and get rich. Answering to the question: "How do you feel?", in an interview with Forbes in October 1974.

Berkshire’s arbitrage activities differ from those of many arbitrageurs. First, we participate in only a few, and usually very large, transactions each year. Most practitioners buy into a great many deals perhaps 50 or more per year. With that many irons in the fire, they must spend most of their time monitoring both the progress of deals and the market movements of the related stocks. This is not how Charlie nor I wish to spend our lives. (What’s the sense in getting rich just to stare at a ticker tape all day?)