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2000年股东大会 · 当巴菲特说“我看不懂这个生意”时,他到底在说什么

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M1
M10:00

你好,Warren。

Hello, Warren.

你好,Charlie。

Hello, Charlie.

我叫 Doug Patterson。

My name is Doug Patterson.

我就来自这儿,Omaha。

I'm from here in Omaha.

我在前面不远的 University of Nebraska at Omaha 教书,我教的是戏剧,这也是世界上最棒的工作。

I teach down the road at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and I teach in theater, which is also the greatest job in the world.

我得说,我也很享受你们每年带来的这场戏。

And I have to say that I enjoy the theater you provide every year.

太感谢了。

Thanks so much.
M2
M20:16

谢谢你。

Thank you.
M1
M10:18

嗯,就这么坐在这儿,坐了三四个小时以后,我们这些人脑子里冒出来的问题实在太多了。

Um, just sitting here, there's so many questions that come to those of us who've been sitting here for 3 or 4 hours.

我这儿有三个彼此不太相关的问题。

I've got 3 very disconnected questions.
M2
M20:25

好,我们一个一个来。

Okay, we'll do them one at a time.

好啊。

Cool.
M1
M10:27

说到这些科技股,你说你们看不懂它们。

In terms of these tech stocks, you say that you don't understand them.

你能不能说说你的想法——我很难想象你会有看不懂的东西。

Can you say if you think— I can't imagine you not understanding something.
M2
M20:37

哦,我们,我们懂产品。

Oh, we, we understand the product.

我们知道它能给人们带来什么作用。

We understand what it does for people.

我们只是不知道十年之后它的经济性会是什么样。

We just don't know the economics of it 10 years from now.

那——我的意思是,你可以理解很多种行业——你可以理解钢铁。

That— I mean, you can understand all kinds— you can understand steel.

我的意思是,你也可以理解住宅建造。

I mean, you can understand home building.

但是如果你看一家 home builder,呃,然后试着去想它五年或十年后会是什么样,特别是它的经济性,那就是另一回事了。

But if you look at a home builder, uh, and, and try and think where it's going to be in 5 or 10 years, the economics of it, that's another question.

我的意思是,这不是说你不理解他们生产出来的产品,不理解他们用什么方式去分销,或者诸如此类的事情。

I mean, it's not a question of understanding the product they turn out, the means they use to distribute it, all of those sort of things.

问题在于,十年之后这种商业状况在经济层面上有没有可预测性,这才是我们的难点。

It's the predictability of the economics of the situation 10 years out, and that's our problem.
M1
M11:09

对。

Right.

我也不是想激你们非得去做这个。

And I'm not trying to provoke you into doing it.

我很高兴你们没这么做,不然就这过去几个月的情况来看,我大概都要心脏病发作了。

I'm glad you haven't, because I probably would have gone into cardiac arrest this last couple of months.

对啊,那我们也一样。

Yeah, well, so would we.

对。

Yeah.

所以你的判断是,你们不会试着去弄懂这个,是吗?

So your projection is that you are not going to try to make an attempt to understand that?

你觉得这个——它是不可理解的吗?

You think it's— is it not comprehensible?

是这个意思吗?

Is that it?

是看不明白吗?

It's not comprehensible?

对,我看每一门生意的时候,都会去想它的经济特性。

Yeah, every business I look at, I think about its economics.

你知道,这已经是我骨子里的东西了。

You know, it's built into me.

Charlie 也是这样。

It's built into Charlie.
M2
M21:34

所以并不是说我们把阀门关掉了。

So it isn't that we shut off the valve.

只是我们根本推不下去。

It's just that we don't get anyplace.

我们不知道它最后会是什么样子。

We don't know what it'll look like.

而且,你知道,人生里有很多东西,你可以——它们对我们很多人来说,就是超出理解范围的。

And it's, you know, there are a lot of things in life that you can— they're just beyond comprehension for many of us.
M1
M11:51

所以你的意思是,比如说,可能其实谁都没法真正理解这个东西,没法知道它十年后会变成什么样,对吗?

And so you'd say that, like, nobody really probably can understand this, where it'll be in 10 years?

谁都不可能理解?

Nobody could understand?

我们会对此非常怀疑。

We would be very skeptical about it.
M2
M21:58

对,我会这么说。

Yeah, I would say that.

顺便说一句,我的朋友 Bill Gates 也会这么说。

And incidentally, my friend Bill Gates would say the same thing.

其实,Bob Noyce 也会——Bob 几年前去世了,不过——或者 Andy Grove。

And actually, Bob Noyce would have— Bob died some years ago, but— or Andy Grove.

他们也都会这么说。

They would say the same thing.

我跟 Andy 一起长时间散过步,他们都不会愿意把自己的预测写在纸上,说你在科技领域挑出的十家公司,十年后它们在经济层面会是什么样。

I've taken long walks with Andy, and they would not want to put down on paper their predictions about where 10 companies you would choose in the tech field would be in 10 years in terms of their economics.

他们会说,这太难了。

They would say that's too hard.

明白。

Cool.