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2011年股东大会 · 高失业率大环境下,巴菲特给年轻人的建议

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M1
M10:00

下午好。

Good afternoon.

我叫 Christopher David。

My name is Christopher David.

我是来自 Virginia 州 Arlington 的一名创业者。

I'm an entrepreneur from Arlington, Virginia.

我的问题是关于年轻人的。

My question is about the youth.

我接触很多高中生、大学生,还有刚毕业的年轻人,他们面对的是一个青年失业率达到百分之二十的就业市场;但与此同时,这又是一个对创业特别有利的环境。

I work with a lot of high school and college students and recent graduates who are facing a job market with 20% youth unemployment, and at the same time, one of the most favorable entrepreneurial environments.

现在创业或者参与一家 startup,比以往任何时候都更容易。

It's easier than ever to start a business or get involved with a startup.

所以,考虑到这些年轻人很懂政治,也喜欢学经济学,而且他们很聪明,也愿意学习,那么从投资的角度,你们能给他们什么建议,帮助他们自己走出一条路,而不是去找一份朝九晚五的工作?

So considering that these kids are politically savvy, they like studying economics, they're, they're brilliant, and they're willing to learn, what advice can you give them from an investment perspective that could help them chart their own course as opposed to get a 9-to-5 job?
M2
M20:47

嗯,你能做的最重要的事——当然每个人做法不一样——我以前是靠大量阅读来做这件事的。

Well, the main thing you could do—and people do it different ways—I used to do it by doing a lot of reading.

我九岁、十岁、十一岁那几年,几乎就住在 Omaha Public Library 里,整整有三四年。

I practically lived at the Omaha Public Library for 3 or 4 years, when I was 9 or 10 or 11.

我的意思是,任何能提升你自身能力的事,你都去做,因为你永远不知道它以后会在哪儿给你带来回报。

I mean, anything you do to improve your own skills, you know, you never know where it's going to pay off later on.

我只有——我办公室里只挂着一张文凭。

I only—I have one diploma hanging in my office.

我其实还有另外几张,但我挂出来的那一张,是我上 Dale Carnegie 课程拿到的,那是一九五一年花一百美元上的。

And I got a couple of others, but the one diploma I have hanging up there is one I got from a Dale Carnegie course, which cost me $100 back in 1951.

而那一百美元到底给我带来了多大的价值,我都没法计算。

And I can't—it's incalculable how much value I got from that $100.

没有什么比下功夫提升自己的能力更重要了。

There's nothing like working to improve your own skills.

而且我会说,不管你将来做什么,第一项最值得下功夫提升的,就是沟通能力,因为它会提升你一生的价值。

And I would say communication skills are the first area I would work on to enhance your value throughout life, no matter what you do.

我的意思是,如果我的沟通能力还停留在一九五零年或者一九五一年时的那个水平,那我的人生会完全不一样。

I mean, if I had stayed in the same position I was in, in terms of communicating, uh, back in 1950 or '51, my life would've turned out differently.

我是从卖证券开始做起的,而如果你不会跟人讲话,那你卖证券就会有大麻烦。

I mean, I started selling securities, and if you can't talk to people, you've got a real problem selling securities.

所以我觉得——我是说,如果你够幸运,能很早就找到自己的热情所在,那当然最好;但你要做的是,去做你真正有热情的事,然后再努力提升自己在这件事上的能力。

So I, you know, I think people—I think that if you get lucky, you find your passion early on, but you want to work at something you're passionate about, and then you want to work to improve your skills in that.

我觉得如果这两件事你都做到了,你大概率会发展得非常好。

And I think if you do both of those things, I think you're likely to do very well.

Charlie?

Charlie?
M3
M32:43

对,我觉得经济学是一门特别难的学科。我觉得基础 microeconomics 和某些基本概念其实不难教,但一旦进入完整的复杂范围,问题就在于,专家彼此之间都意见不一致。

Yeah, I think economics is a really tough subject, and I think it's easy to teach the basic microeconomics and certain of the basic ideas, but the minute it gets into the full range of complexity, you have the difficulty that the experts disagree.

所以如果是我想学点什么,我不会急着一头扎进那些连专家自己都互相无法达成一致的领域。

So I don't think I would hurry, if I were trying to learn something, into the parts of the fields where none of the experts can agree among themselves.

我会先把那些容易的东西彻底学会。

I would master the easy stuff first.
M2
M23:21

对,我也觉得——对,如果是一个还在上学的人,我不会建议他去上很多经济学课程。

Yeah, I don't think—yeah, I would not advise taking lots of courses in economics to somebody going to school.

我,呃,只是在试着回想。

I, uh, just trying to think back.

我在 Wharton 上经济学课已经是很久以前的事了,但我并不觉得那些课在任何重要意义上真正推动了我前进。

It's been a long time since I took my economics courses at Wharton, but I don't regard them as the ones that pushed me forward in any significant way.
M1
M13:45

Carol?

Carol?