Lest we forget that at least one 1%er gets it. Some of my favorite Warren Buffett quotes

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Over the years, Charlie and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.

The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America (2001), p. 210

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

As quoted in The Real Warren Buffett : Managing Capital, Leading People (2002) by James O'Loughlin

The 400 of us pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Speaking at a $4,600-a-seat political fundraiser in New York, as quoted in "Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary", Times Online, June 28, 2007.

Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.

Berkshire Hathaway 2008 Chairman's Letter

About US Health Care Costs It's like a tapeworm eating at our economic body.

In a March 1, 2010 discussion on CNBC, comparing the 17% of GDP spent by the U.S. on healthcare costs with the 9-10% paid by many other countries ("Buffett: Health care "tapeworm" drags on economy&quot .


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