Warren Buffett

Born: August 30, 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Married to:
Astrid Menks (30 August 2006 – present)
Susan Thompson (19 April 1952 – 29 July 2004) (her death) (3 children)

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

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 all 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.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

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.

[on forward-thinking] Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.