I was looking back on when Nixon resigned and actually the market held up very well around those days. It began to tank actually after Ford came in as president and the economic news began...

[Jeremy Siegel, a professor of finance at the Wharton School, sees the year-long sell-off as a rational response to fast-weakening corporate profits. And he says the worst may not be over.] I don’t think (tech...

Easy come easy go on the Nasdaq.

This is a major, major act of war and act of terrorism that will have widespread economic consequences.

I don’t think (tech stocks) are cheap. But they are closer to true value.

I think that certainly this preoccupies us today, but I think the economic factors are overriding when considering the direction of the market.

It’s a watershed of an event.

The only way around this is to diversify.

In our modern, connected world, there are fewer reasons for close proximity for those involved in the financial markets.

The economy will start screaming uncle eventually.

Dividends have been a way to show that earnings are real. That there is money behind those earnings.

[At 74, Buffett says he is in excellent health and has no plans to retire. Nor has he named a successor. But if he did leave the company, what would happen to it? Buffett is...

He’s obviously a very bright man. He looks at things very rationally. He doesn’t like to get his emotions involved.

[Neither, however, should they expect Buffett’s advancing age to have much effect on the share price.] Everyone knows he’s not going to live forever, … That’s built into the price…. The market is thinking, maybe...

That’s very frustrating, but earnings are still what it’s all about. Investors look at annual performance, and they’re not always patient to sit with a company for a long time.

Relative to the $7 trillion mutual fund industry, it’s very little money, maybe one or two percent in returns.

The persistent increase in oil prices is worrying me again.

The market is taking any minor shred of optimistic evidence and putting it into the price. People are worried that they are going to miss out on the bottom.

This ultimately hurts the return on the S&P 500 going forward.

If he is smart, he would put this aside completely until the cycle of Fed tightening is over and a clear path can be seen ahead. The Fed has gone 90 years without it. It...

The S&P 500 is still less than 70 percent of the entire market, so in order to diversify your holdings you have to hold some mid-cap and small stocks. But my major message is that...

His rating is a negative for the market. He has been a stock market-friendly president in terms of legislation.

Gen Re is an important part of Berkshire. I think Warren would be the first to admit that he didn’t know all the problems of Gen Re when he bought it [in 1998]…. There clearly...