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1996年股东大会 · 巴菲特:伯克希尔的收入翻番了,但这不是我的目标

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F10:00

来自 Seattle 的 Dorothy Craig。

Dorothy Craig from Seattle.

我注意到你们最近的收购,让收入翻了一番。

And I noticed in the annual report that your recent acquisitions doubled.
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M10:11

这个嘛,一方面是因为我们的起点本来就比较小。

Well, it's—for one thing, we started from kind of a small base.

不过呢,我们收购 GEICO 之后,大概增加了三十亿美元左右的收入,实际上比这还要多一点,但也没多太多。

The—but we—the GEICO acquisition, you know, added $3 billion or so of revenues and actually more than that, a little more than that, but not much more.

还有 R.C.

And R.C.

Willey 和 Helzberg 在当年大概又增加了六亿美元左右。

Willey and Helzberg probably added $600 million or so in the current year.

而且因为我们原来的收入基数大概只有三十五亿美元左右,所以这三笔收购确实帮助我们把收入翻了一番。

And since we were working off a base of $3.5 or so billion, those three acquisitions did help double the revenues.

这种情况不会经常发生。

We won't have many years when that happens.

我们的目标并不是让收入翻番,或者增长百分之二十。

It's not any goal of ours to double the revenues or increase them 20%.

如果有合适的机会出现,值得做,那我们就会做很多。

If it comes along that makes sense, we'll do a lot.

如果没有什么值得做的机会出现,那我们就什么都不做。

And if there's nothing that comes along that makes sense, we'll do nothing.

所以这里面有很大的偶然成分。

So it's—there's a lot of accident in it.

不过去年确实发生了不少事情,我也很希望明年还能有很多事发生,但现在我们还不知道。

But last year, you know, a fair amount happened, and I'd love to see a lot happen next year, but we don't know at this point.
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F11:02

Charlie?

Charlie?

没什么。

Nothing.

六区。

Zone 6.