Berkshire Quotes

You will have to pay him on every can of paint, every carpet, every everything that goes into your house... He's betting on the next economic upswing again, and that's why Berkshire Hathaway has done extremely well. He's a very smart investor. - Barry Hyman

With this transaction, Berkshire is now clearly an insurance company that will generate excess capital and cash flow that can be invested and, of course, the real synergy here is that Warren Buffett is the master at allocating and using capital and General Re is a company that generates an enormous amount of excess capital, so it's a great fit. - Alice Schroeder

When we were looking for a weekend place... Shannon was working at Jacob's Pillow in the Berkshires, and I was tooling around. I called her all excited about getting a home up there. But she said: 'Yeah, but it's a three-hour drive. When do we have the time for a three-hour drive? With our one day off, we'll come up and we'll have to go home right away.' - Marc Kudisch

We have three managers at Berkshire who are reasonably young and fully capably of being chief executive. - Warren Buffett

We got a good look at the Himalayas, which they tell me are about 28,000 feet high. I expected to be very impressed, but really, they didn't look any more picturesque to me than the Berkshires or the Green Mountains. Certainly not as pleasant-looking as the wooded mountains we have in New England. I'll leave those cold and barren slopes in Asia to the mountain climbers. - Norman Rockwell

We are extremely excited to be welcomed into the Berkshire Hathaway family. We are confident that the acquisition will provide myriad positive benefits for our employees, our clients and our affiliates and business partners worldwide. This is a win-win for all involved. - Cathy Baron Tamraz

There's a tremendous depth of talent within Berkshire's executive ranks. - Keith Trauner

There is an element of protesting too much. When you look at it, Berkshire Hathaway is not a million miles away from being a giant hedge fund or private- equity fund itself. - Tim Price