Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries. Add a hundred and twenty billion dollars annually to that equation and you have serious trouble.

If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.

Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments.

There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.

We're supposed to be unable to keep our hands off of each other. We're supposed to tear each other's clothes off. I'm supposed to make you scream again and again all night long, Lila.

A follower of mine asked me, "Sir, you are looking for billions, you want to be a billionaire, you want to be the country's largest wealthy person, if this is true then how is this possible?' 'I said, knowledge is the infinitely powerful.' At that time my answer was simple but subtle.