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2002年股东大会 · 没有一个简单的公式,可以成就一个优秀投资者

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M1
M10:01

我叫 Ryan Martins,来自南非的 Cape Town,大概十年前开始,我就成了你们观点的忠实粉丝,也一直很认真地读你们的东西。

My name is Ryan Martins from Cape Town, South Africa, and I became a big fan and avid reader of your ideas about 10 years ago.

一九九九年,我读了 MBA,因为我在课堂讨论里总是引用你们的话,所以大家给我起了个外号,叫 Warren Buffett。

In 1999, I did an MBA and was nicknamed Warren Buffett because I quoted you in all the classroom discussions.

我当时一心想学的,就是怎么给一只股票估值,怎么去思考股价,但很遗憾,我挺失望地发现,我们的 MBA 其实并没有真正教这些。

All I wanted to learn was how to value a stock and think about stock prices, but sadly, I was rather disappointed to find out that our MBA did not really teach that.

Buffett 先生、Munger 先生,我的问题是这样的:如果让你们从一群年轻、聪明、认同你们投资理念,而且也具备你们刚才提到的那种现实感和纪律性的人里面,去预测谁会成为更出色的投资者,那么你们最想了解这群人身上的哪些特质,或者哪些工作习惯?另外,你们会给每个因素分配多大的权重,才能让你们这个预测有最大的概率是对的?

Mr. Buffett and Mr. Munger, my question is this: if you had to predict who would be the superior investors from a group of young, bright people who share your investment philosophy and possess the realism and discipline you referred to earlier, which characteristics or work habits would you like to know about the individuals in the group, and what weighting would you place on each factor to ensure the greatest probability of your prediction being correct?
M2
M20:58

嗯,这个问题对我来说太简单了,所以我让 Charlie 来回答。

Well, that's too easy a question for me, so I'll let Charlie answer that.
M3
M31:07

我觉得,对这个问题最公道的回答就是,我没有能力回答它。

I think the fair answer to that one is that I'm not capable of answering it.
M2
M21:12

不,不过我确实觉得——我是这么想的——我觉得这话完全对。

No, but I do think— I think this— I think that's exactly right.

我的意思是,如果你问我,应该——该怎么选老婆?

I mean, if you ask me, what should— how should you pick a wife?

你说,百分之十八看幽默感,百分之十二看长相,你知道,百分之十七,呃,看父母。

You know, 18% to humor, 12% to looks, you know, 17%, you know, the parents.

我没法给你一个公式,但我觉得,等你真正到了那个时候,你自然会做出对的决定。而且我觉得,如果 Charlie 和我跟十来个非常聪明、履历也很漂亮的 MBA 待在一起,相处一段时间,我们大概有相当大的把握,能从这群人里挑出一个人来。这个人未必一定是第一名,但就他最后实际的发展结果来看,很可能会落在前四分之一。

I can't give you the formula, but I think you'll make the right decision, you know, when you get— And I think if Charlie and I were around a dozen very bright MBAs with good records and all of that, and we spent some time with them, I think we'd have a reasonable chance of picking somebody from that group that might not necessarily be number one, but they would be in the upper quartile in terms of how they actually turned out.

但是我没法告诉你具体该怎么做——我也写不出一个软件程序,或者别的什么东西,让你能够靠那个来做到这件事。

But I can't tell you how to— I can't write out a software program or anything that will enable you to do that.

我当年在 Salomon,就在那个周六早上碰到过一模一样的问题,具体是哪天来着,好像是八月十七号,我必须得选一个人出来管理那个地方。

I had that problem exactly at Salomon on that Saturday morning, whatever it was, August 17th, and I had to pick a guy to run the place.

当时大概有十来个人,都觉得自己才是那个合适的人选,或者说,其中有不少人都觉得应该由自己来管。

And there were a dozen or so people that all thought that they were the ones, or a number of them thought they were the ones to run it.

而且他们个个智商都很高,也都在 investment banking 方面有很多经验,什么条件都有。

And they all had high IQs, and they all had lots of experience in investment banking and everything.

然后我,你知道,最后还是得选一个。

And I, you know, in the end, I had to pick one.

而且我确实选对了,这个我得这么说。

And I did pick the right one, I will say that.

不过,你知道,当时的我——我能不能百分之百确定那就是对的人选呢?

And, you know, was I— could I be 100% sure at that time it was the right one?

嗯,可能也不能,但我当时相当确信,我选对人了。

Well, probably not, but I felt pretty sure I had the right one.

而且我没法告诉你——有人问过我,说那你都问了他们什么问题,你又是怎么评估的?

And I can't tell you— I've had people say to me, well, what did you ask them, and how did you evaluate it?

因为我当时只有大概三个小时来做这个决定。

Because I only had about 3 hours to do it.

而我也不知道。

And I don't know.

我的意思是,我没法给你写出一套你该拿去问别人的问题。

I mean, I can't write you out a set of questions that you should ask somebody.

你知道,这里面有些东西,可能是肢体语言,也可能是类似的各种因素。

You know, some of it may be body language and different things of that sort.

这里面变量太多了。

There are a lot of variables in it.

但我觉得,最后如果你当时也在那个位置上,你大概也会选和我一样的人。

But I think in the end, you would have picked the same person I picked if you'd been in that spot.

你也得在那三个小时里选出一个人来。

You'd have had to pick somebody in the 3 hours.
M3
M33:12

而且这——

And it—.
M2
M23:14

但是要我把这个给你量化出来,我就是做不到。

But quantifying it for you, I just, I can't do it.
M3
M33:17

好吧。

Okay.
M2
M23:17

Charlie,你有个数字吗?

Charlie, have you got a number?
M3
M33:18

对,不过,当成功是由多个因素共同造成的时候,就会出现这种反常现象。

Yeah, well, when multiple factors are causing success, you get these anomalies.

你可能会看到两个人最后会取得同样的成功,其中一个人在 A 方面特别强,但在 Z 方面特别差;另一个人在 Z 方面特别强,但在 A 方面特别差。

You could have 2 people who are going to be equally successful, and one is terribly good at A and terrible at Z, and the other is terribly good at Z and— is very good at Z and terrible at A.

他们是一样的。

They're equal.

那到底哪个因素最重要呢?

Which factor is most important?

答案是,在这种情况下,这个问题并不重要。

The answer is, it doesn't matter in that case.

当你面对多个因素的时候,在某一个方面特别强,会在一定程度上弥补另一方面的弱点,而且这些因素彼此之间可以差别很大。

When you've got multiple factors, great strength in one will compensate some for weakness in another, and the factors can be quite different.

我觉得投资世界里有很多人,他们之所以成功,靠的是非常不同类型的才能。

I think the investment world is full of people who are succeeding based on quite different sorts of talent.
M2
M24:09

我们明年争取做得更好。

We'll try to do better next year.

第八个。

Number 8.