Zitate von Warren Buffett

zitiert bei Jutta Ditfurth. Zeit des Zorns. nrhz.de/flyer 29. Juli 2011 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=13886
Original engl.: ”There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” - im Interview mit Ben Stein in New York Times, 26. November 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26every.html?_r=0

zitiert bei Frankfurter Allgemeine faz. net 15. August 2011

Zitiert bei Mika Hoffmann, Ferdinand Bertram und Oliver Janich. Warren Buffett - Milliarden-Macher. Focus-Money online 25.03.2004 http://www.focus.de/finanzen/boerse/warren-buffett-milliarden-macher_aid_252047.html
Original engl.: "If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning." - Jahresbrief an die Investoren seines Fonds "Berkshire Hathaway", 2003, S. 7 berkshirehathaway.com http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2003ar/2003ar.pdf

DER SPIEGEL 34/2011 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-80075340.html 22. August 2011]
"My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice." - Stop Coddling the Super-Rich, by Warren E. Buffett, New York Times 14. August 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2013/12/02/23-quotes-from-warren-buffett-on-life-and-generosity/ "23 Quotes from Warren Buffett on Life and Generosity" forbes.com (02 December 2013)
Quotes from the press

" My Philanthropic Pledge http://givingpledge.org/pdf/letters/Buffett_Letter.pdf" at the The Giving Pledge (2010)
Kontext: Some material things make my life more enjoyable; many, however, would not. I like having an expensive private plane, but owning a half-dozen homes would be a burden. Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest. Both my children and I won what I call the ovarian lottery. (For starters, the odds against my 1930 birth taking place in the U. S. were at least 30 to 1. My being male and white also removed huge obstacles that a majority of Americans then faced.) My luck was accentuated by my living in a market system that sometimes produces distorted results, though overall it serves our country well. I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fate’s distribution of long straws is wildly capricious.
The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not guilt, but rather gratitude. Were we to use more than 1% of my claim checks on ourselves, neither our happiness nor our well-being would be enhanced. In contrast, that remaining 99% can have a huge effect on the health and welfare of others. That reality sets an obvious course for me and my family: Keep all we can conceivably need and distribute the rest to society, for its needs. My pledge starts us down that course.