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1997年股东大会 · 为什么巴菲特不写一本关于自己的书?

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M1
M10:00

大家早上好。

Good morning.

我是来自 Texas 的 Bandera 的 Marshall Patton。

I'm Marshall Patton from Bandera, Texas.

首先,我非常想感谢你们,不光给了我们一个很好的投资工具,也一路给了我们很好的教育。

And first, I'd like to thank you very much for not only giving us a good investment vehicle but giving us a good education along the way.

也非常感谢你们这些年来写给股东的信,整理成的那套两卷本。

And thanks a lot for the 2-volume set of the letters to stockholders over the years.

在我们那儿,那是必读材料。

It's required reading around our place.

如果你能稍微收一收你的敌意的话,我还想感谢 Charlie Munger,感谢他给了我一份他一九九四年对 University of Southern California 商学院学生演讲的副本。

And if you can contain your hostility, I'd like to thank Charlie Munger for the copy of his speech to the University of Southern California Business School students back in 1994.

那也是必读材料。

It's also required reading.

我想问您,您打算什么时候写一本自己的书?

And I wanted to ask you, when are you going to write your book?
M2
M20:46

嗯,我,我,首先,我想先说说 Charlie 的那篇演讲。

Well, I, I, first of all, I'd like to comment on Charlie's talk.

我,我觉得全世界每一个投资者都应该在投资之前先读一读那篇演讲。

I, I think every investor in the world ought to read that talk before they invest.

我觉得吧——好像也没什么必要让我再去写一本书。

I think that's— there doesn't seem to be any need for me to write a book.

反正别人都在写。

Everybody else is doing it.

而且我们这儿还有 Janet Lowe,她刚刚写了最新的一本。

And we've got Janet Lowe here who just wrote the most recent one.

而且,你知道,我在这样那样的时候,已经把我知道的都说过了,甚至还多说了不少。

And, you know, at one time or another, I've said everything I know and a good bit more.

所以我从来没觉得非得去写——我其实一直觉得,年度报告有点像一本分期连载的书,最好看的内容永远还在后头,而且还会有更多更有意思的事情发生。

So I've never felt compelled to do— I really feel that the annual reports are sort of a book on the installment system, that the best is always yet to come, and that a lot more interesting things are going to happen.

我可不想因为写了书,就没法再对那些事情发表评论了。

And I would hate to preclude commenting on those.

所以我想,我想可能还得再过几年吧,不过也许某个时候我还是会去写。

So I think, I think it's going to be a few years, but I may, I may get around to it at some point.

不过我觉得,如果那事真的发生了,也许反而不是个好信号,因为那可能意味着,我真的觉得我正在写的东西,比接下来将要发生的事更重要。

But I think maybe it'd be a bad sign if it happened, because it might be that I really thought that what I was writing about was more important than what was going to happen next.

Charlie,你会写一本书吗?

Charlie, are you going to write a book?
M3
M31:37

不会,不过你刚才说你为什么没法写书,让我想起一个 Midwest 的家伙,他留下了一部没写完的手稿。

No, but your comment about why you are unable to write a book reminds me of the Midwestern fellow who left an unfinished manuscript.

他为自己没把那本书写完表示歉意,那本书的名字叫《Midwest 的那些著名混蛋》。

And he apologized for not finishing his book, which was entitled Famous Midwestern Sons of Bitches.

他说他总是会认识新的一个,所以这本书他永远也写不完。

And he said he was always meeting a new one, and therefore he could never finish the book.
M2
M22:09

出于礼貌,Charlie 和我在我们要写的那本书里,都把彼此排除在外。

As a courtesy, Charlie and I are leaving each other out of the book that we write.

Charlie 是,呃,Charlie 是在 Nebraska 长大的,这一点货真价实。

Charlie was, uh, Charlie grew up in Nebraska, and he's authentic.

他有,呃,他有足够的资历可以证明这一点。

He has, uh, he has the credentials to prove it.

呃,很多年前,我们曾经在同一家杂货店工作过,只不过不是同一个时期。

Uh, we worked in the same grocery store at different times many years ago.

呃,请五号区提问。

Uh, area 5, please.