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2013年股东大会 · 巴菲特会对年轻的自己说些什么

28 段 · 3 位说话人 · 原片 2:34
M1
M10:00

大家好,我叫 Dex Durrance。

Hi, my name is Dex Durrance.

我来自 Virginia 的 Stafford。

I'm from Stafford, Virginia.

我三十岁,我在想,几年之后我的生活会是什么样,更别说五十年之后了。

I'm 30 years old, and I'm wondering what my life will be like in a few years, let alone 50 years from now.

我想问 Buffett 先生和 Munger 先生二位的是,你们觉得自己在过去五十年里发生了怎样的变化?

My question for both Mr. Buffett and Mr. Munger is, how do you think you've changed over the last 50 years?

如果你们能够跟五十年前的自己交流,你们会对当时的自己说什么?

And if you could communicate to yourself 50 years ago, what would you tell them?

给一条建议,不管是事业上的还是个人生活上的都行。另外,你会怎么说,才能让过去的自己真的愿意听进去?

One piece of advice, business or personal, and how would you do it in a way where your former self would actually heed it?
M2
M20:29

Charlie,这个我让你来回答。

Charlie, I'll let you answer that.

顺便说一句,我愿意跟你换位置,所以别担心你的未来。

Incidentally, I'll trade you places, so don't worry about your future.
M3
M30:40

对,我们基本上已经老派到——老派得都有点无聊、老生常谈了。

Yeah, we're basically so old-fashioned that it— we're boringly trite.

我们觉得,你就是应该持续埋头干下去,保持理性,保持精力充沛,而那些老派的美德到现在还是管用。

We think you ought to keep plugging along and stay rational and stay energetic, and just all the old virtues still work.
M2
M20:59

还有,呃,要找到真正让你来劲的东西。

And, uh, but find what turns you on.
M3
M31:02

对,你得,你得去做那种真正让你有热情的工作。

Yeah, you gotta, you gotta work where you're turned on.

我不知道 Warren 是不是这样,但我自己从来没有在一件我不喜欢做的事情上取得过特别大的成功。

I don't know about Warren, but I have never succeeded to any great extent in something I didn't like doing.
M2
M21:13

Charlie 和我都是在同一家 grocery store 起步的,不过我们俩后来都没待在 grocery business 里。

Charlie and I both started in the same grocery store, and neither one of us are in the grocery business.
M3
M31:20

而且我们本来也不可能被提拔,哪怕你还顶着家族的姓氏。

We were not going to be promoted either, even though you had the family name.

对。

Yeah.
M2
M21:28

我祖父当时说得也对。

My grandfather was right too.

不,真的——我的意思是,如果你运气好,而 Charlie 和我在这方面都算运气不错,我们——当然,首先是运气好,生在这个国家,但我们也找到了自己喜欢做的事。

No, it's really— I mean, if you're lucky, and Charlie and I were lucky in this respect, we've— well, we were lucky to be in this country to start with, but we found things we like to do.

而且是在很早的时候。

Very early in life.

然后我们,你知道,就非常努力地去做那些事,但在做的过程中,我们自己也很享受。

And then we, you know, we pushed very hard in doing those things, but we were enjoying it while we, while we did it.

我们经营 Berkshire 的这段日子,真的太有意思了。

We have had so much fun running Berkshire.

我是说,这,这简直都有点像是犯规一样。

I mean, it's, it's almost sinful.

而且,呃,不过我们也确实很幸运。你知道,我爸爸碰巧是在一个他自己并不觉得特别有意思的行业里,但我却觉得特别有意思。

And, and, uh, but we were lucky to, you know, my dad happened to be in a business that he didn't find very interesting, but I found very interesting.

所以我星期六去那边的时候,就有很多书可以看,然后,你知道,这种兴趣从很小的时候就自然发展起来了,Charlie 也是后来找到了。

And so when I would go down on Saturday, there were a lot of books to read and, you know, it just flowed from a very early age, and Charlie found it.
M3
M32:21

你倒是找到了一个为自己这么开心赎罪的办法。

You found a way to atone for your sins in having so much fun.

你把所有的钱都还回去了。

You're giving all the money back.
M2
M22:28

嗯,对,不过到头来,不管你愿不愿意,这些钱你反正都是要还回去的。

Well, yeah, but you give it all back whether you want to or not in the end.
M3
M32:32

那倒也是。

That's true too.