#ow

Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#character #crazy #down #had #i

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. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#american #american public #catching #down #give

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#down #happy #hold #market #only

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. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#before #billion #billionaires #brings #dollars

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#better #class #cut #end #even

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#got #improve #life #lot #million

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#back #being #certain time #i #just

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know? ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#clear #down #dumb #i #know

It is too late; now I wish I could live. ↗

— John Buford

#i #i wish #late #live #now

We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold. ↗

— John Buford

#back #before #drive #enemy #entered