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2007年股东大会 · 芒格:年轻时,我把一天中最好的一个小时留给自己

43 段 · 3 位说话人 · 原片 4:53
F1
F10:00

Buffett 先生、Munger 先生,你们好。

Hello, Mr. Buffett and Mr. Munger.

我叫 Murray Blevins,来自 Kentucky 州的 Bardstown。

My name is Murray Blevins, and I am from Bardstown, Kentucky.

这是我第一次参加股东大会。

This is my first shareholder meeting.

我的问题是,你们觉得一个十岁的孩子,最好的赚钱方式是什么?

My question is, what do you think are the best ways a 10-year-old can earn money?
M1
M10:29

嗯,我得说,这个问题在我十岁的时候,我可是认真想过很多,比我花在学校和其他一些事情上的心思都多。

Well, I must say, that was a, that was a subject I gave a lot of thought to when I was 10, more than I gave to school and some other things.

嗯,你知道,你得——你现在大概还稍微小了点,不太适合送报纸。

Uh, you know, you have to— probably a little young to deliver papers.

那一直是我最喜欢的活儿,嗯,我最初起步的资本里,大概有一半都是靠送报纸赚来的。

That was always my favorite, uh, and I got about half, half the capital I started with by delivering papers.

而且我一直喜欢这件事,因为某种程度上我可以自己一个人干。

And I always liked it because I could sort of do it by myself.

我不知道你住的那个镇上情况怎么样,不过就像我说的,十岁可能还是稍微小了点,但是十二岁或者十三岁就没问题了。

I don't know the situation in the town in which you live, but like I say, 10 is probably a little young, but, but 12 or 13 would not be.

而且几乎任何——会有很多这种小小的——我想想看——我高中毕业以前,应该试过二十种不同的生意。

And almost any— there can be a lot of little bit— I tried to— I must have tried 20 different businesses, uh, by the time I got out of high school.

其中最好的一个是 pinball machine 生意,不过我不太确定我是不是该推荐你去做这个。

The best one was a pinball machine business, but I'm not sure I want to recommend that you get into that.

我那时候做的时候,这还是一种纯粹得多的生意,就是你投一个五美分硬币进去,基本也就这样。

When I did it, it was a much purer business where you put a nickel in and that was about it.

不过这事挺有意思的。

But it is interesting.

很久以前我读过一项研究。

I read a study a long time ago.

我真希望还能把它找出来,因为我引用过很多次了,但我从来没法像真正找到那份我三十年前读过的该死的东西那样,引用得那么有底气。

I wish I'd get my hands on it because I've quoted it a lot, but I've never quoted it as authoritatively as I would be able to if I could actually find the damn thing that I read 30 years ago.

那项研究把商业上的成功和一些变量做了相关性分析。

But it correlated business success with certain variables.

而且,你知道,他们试了学校成绩,也试了你父母是做什么的,也试了你是不是上过 business school,诸如此类各种因素。

And, you know, they tried grades in school, and they tried what your parents did, and they tried whether you went to business school, all those kind of things.

最后他们发现,相关性最强的是你第一次开始——第一次做生意、第一次进入生意场时的年龄。

And they found it correlated best with the age at which you entered— got started your first business, got into business.
F1
F12:11

对。

Yeah.
M1
M12:12

也就是说,你第一次做生意时年纪越小,看起来和你后来在商业上的成功,相关性越强。

That the younger you were when you did your first piece of business seemed to correlate best with later business success.

从某种程度上说,这也算挺自然的。

And to some extent, that's sort of natural.

这大概也是真的——你在体育上会看到这种现象,在音乐上也会看到,类似这种事情都是这样。

It's probably true that, that when you see it in athletics, you see it in music and that sort of thing.

所以,不管你能想到什么,只要是别人愿意花钱请你做、而他们自己不想做,或者他们希望有人替他们做的事,我都建议你在社区里多看看,跟你父母聊聊,跟朋友聊聊,看看别的十岁、十一岁、十二岁的孩子做过什么,而且对他们有用,然后照着做。

So whatever you can figure out that other people will pay you to do that they don't want to do themselves or that they like done for them, I advise you to look around the neighborhood and talk to your parents, talk to your friends, see what other people have done that have been 10 or 11 or 12 years old that's worked for them and, and copy it.

不过,要是你十二岁或者十三岁的时候能找到一条不错的送报路线,那肯定是攒钱的好办法。

But if you can get a good paper route when you're 12 or 13, that's a sure way to save some money.

我经常会想,有些人明明有一份正常的八小时工作,却还是老在债务里挣扎。

I've often wondered about people that are having trouble being in debt, you know, that have a normal 8-hour job.

如果他们早上再加一条送报路线,然后把那笔钱单独存起来。

If they added a route in the morning and just put that aside.

嗯,你知道,这可能就是让他们摆脱落后局面的一条出路,不再落后,反而能开始领先——每天再多拿出一个半小时来。

Uh, you know, it could be the way out of being behind the game instead of being, uh, and getting ahead of the game and take another hour and a half out of their day.

不过,好像没多少人真的这么做。

But not, not too many people seem to do it.

Charlie 以前不是会把一天里最好的那个小时卖给自己吗,还是怎么说来着,Charlie?

Charlie used to sell— didn't you used to sell yourself the best hour of the day or something, Charlie?
M2
M23:24

一大清早吗?

Early in the morning?
M1
M13:24

对,跟他们讲讲你当时是怎么做的。

Yeah, tell them what you did.
M2
M23:27

嗯,我年轻的时候,读过那本讲储蓄银行那套观念的小册子,叫《The Richest Man in Babylon》,它讲的是少花一点、别把收入都花掉,把省下来的差额拿去投资,时间一长会有多么美妙的效果。

Well, when I was young, I read that savings-bank thing, The Richest Man in Babylon, which taught the joys of underspending your income and investing the difference and how wonderfully it would work over time.

结果还真就是这样,我完全照着那本小册子说的去做了,而且确实有效。

And lo and behold, I did exactly what this little pamphlet suggested, and it worked.

还有,呃,另外一个想法——后来我就意识到,脑子这件事上其实也有一种 mental compound interest。

And, uh, the other idea—and then so I, I got the idea that I had a mental compound interest thing too.

所以我最后决定,每天里最好的一小时,我就拿来提升我自己的头脑,剩下的时间,世界爱怎么买就怎么买。

And so I finally decided I was just going to give the best hour of the day to improving my own mind, and then the world could buy the rest of the time.

而且,呃,这么做也许挺自私的,但它确实管用。

And, uh, that may have been a very selfish thing to do, but it worked.
M1
M14:16

对,Charlie 当时是在卖自己的时间。

Yeah, Charlie was selling his time.

我也不知道,你那时候当律师一小时能赚多少钱来着?

I don't know, what were you getting per hour as a lawyer in those days?
M2
M24:20

不多。

Not much.
M1
M14:20

对,他就是决定把最好的一小时卖给自己。

Yeah, he just decided to sell himself the best hour.

而且,呃,这还真不是什么疯狂的做法。

And, uh, not a crazy thing to do.
M2
M24:26

不过我会告诉那个小女孩,如果你让自己成为一个非常可靠的人,而且一辈子都保持可靠,凡是你答应要做的事,都老老实实、认真负责地做下去,那你想做成的任何事,都很难失败。

But I would tell that little girl that if you make yourself a very reliable person and stay reliable all your life, faithfully doing whatever you engage to do, it will be very hard for you to fail at anything you want.
M1
M14:52

第六个。

Number 6.