Howard Graham Buffett Quotations

Let me tell you about a place where technology won't work. When you walk onto a farm and are standing on soil, there is no technology that is going to take that soil and transform it into something that is five times more productive.

Crop insurance should be a policy that keeps people from going broke, to make sure they can farm next year, but not to make them rich.

Immigration reform doesn't impact me personally; nothing my foundation works on does. But the truth is I have a long history of ties to Latin America. Some of my best friends are in Latin America.

You can't just stick with something that doesn't work.

We've learned that project by project, you can't change millions and millions of lives.

Sometimes, the things we think are so simple but not so easy to grasp are the things that work the best.

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

I have spent more than a decade trying to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people on earth, and they've taught me countless lessons.

You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa... in Asia. And so the truth is, the U.S. is going to have to produce more, on not very many more acres, honestly. And so we're going to have to do a better job.

My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way.