Howard Graham Buffett Approaching life through ’40 Chances’ gives reasons to hope and actions to take, and it offers fresh approaches that our world desperately needs. – Howard Graham Buffett
Howard Graham Buffett 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. – Howard Graham Buffett
Howard Graham Buffett A lot of crops depend on labor, but they’re done by farmers that don’t communicate with one another. They’re never in the same room together. – Howard Graham Buffett
Howard Graham Buffett 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. – Howard Graham Buffett
Howard Graham Buffett Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don’t just bring that back. I always like to say it’s like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn’t going to work. – Howard Graham Buffett
Howard Graham Buffett 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. – Howard Graham Buffett
Howard Graham Buffett Sometimes, the things we think are so simple but not so easy to grasp are the things that work the best. – Howard Graham Buffett
Howard Graham Buffett Eliminating hunger in America is doable, because we have the resources to do it. – Howard Graham Buffett
Howard Graham Buffett 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. – Howard Graham Buffett
Howard Graham Buffett 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. – Howard Graham Buffett
Howard Graham Buffett 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. – Howard Graham Buffett
Howard Graham Buffett We’ve learned that project by project, you can’t change millions and millions of lives. – Howard Graham Buffett
