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2011年股东大会 · 富人家的孩子,应该怎样得到激励?

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F10:00

来自印度 Kashmir 的 Sumit Mehra。

Sumit Mehra from Kashmir in India.

呃,Buffett 先生,希望您第一次去 India 玩得开心。

Uh, Mr. Buffett, hope you enjoyed your first trip to India.
M1
M10:06

当然,很开心。

I sure did.
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F10:07

这是我的问题。

Here's my question.

推动人的一个最重要的因素,就是激励。

One of the most important things that drive people are incentives.

但是,如果你生活在一个富裕的社会里,就很难让你的孩子努力工作、发挥出他们全部的潜力,因为他们其实并不需要这么做。

But if you live in a rich society, it's very hard to get your kids to work hard and reach their full potential because they just don't need to.

所以如果你——如果您或者 Charlie 打算在接下来五年里要个孩子,那得——

So if you're— if you or Charlie decide to have a kid in the next 5 years, it will take—.
M2
M20:30

那他们会成为东方之星。

They'll be a star in the East.
M1
M10:32

那可不只是做个决定那么简单。

It will take more than a decision.
F1
F10:37

您会怎么激励他或者她,去和来自 China、Brazil、Russia 或者 India 这些新兴市场里那些又拼、动力又强的孩子竞争呢?

How would you incentivize him or her to compete against the hungry and highly motivated kids from emerging markets like China, Brazil, Russia, or India?
M1
M10:47

对,我觉得很显然,如果你非常有钱,而你把孩子养成那种觉得自己比社会上别人更重要,或者觉得自己仅仅因为投对了胎,就天然享有某种特殊特权的人,那你知道,这就是一个非常严重的错误。

Yeah, I think certainly that if you are very rich, and you bring up your kids to think that they are, they are more important in society or that they have some special privilege simply because they came out of the right womb, that, you know, that's just a terrible mistake.

不过 Charlie 养大了八个孩子,我跟他们大多数人都很熟,我不觉得他们任何一个人有那种心态。

But Charlie has raised 8 children that I know quite well, most of them, and I don't think any of them have that sense.

但是——如果你真的把孩子养成觉得别的人就该替他们干所有活,而他们这辈子剩下的日子只需要坐着悠哉悠哉给自己扇扇子就行了,那我的意思是,你大概率不会得到什么好结果。

But it's— if you really are going to raise your kids to think that other people should do all the work for them and that they will be entitled to sit around and fan themselves for the rest of their lives, I mean, you know, you will probably not get a good result.
M2
M21:43

我——

I—.
M1
M11:45

你知道,在我——Charlie 在他的孩子们成长的那些年里,大部分时候都已经很有钱了,至少他有些孩子是在那种情况下长大的。

You know, in my— Charlie's been rich most of the time when his kids, many of his kids were growing up, some of his kids were growing up.

我的孩子长大的时候我也已经有钱了,当然,尤其是在他们上高中和大学的时候,但我肯定不想让他们觉得,自己仅仅因为父母有钱就有什么特别。

I've been rich while my kids were getting, certainly when they got into high school and college, but I don't think I certainly didn't want to give them the idea that they were special just because their parents were rich.

而且我不认为,仅仅因为父母有钱,就一定会导致不好的结果,或者孩子就一定会没有动力。

And I don't think you necessarily have to get a bad result or have children that don't have any incentives simply because their parents are rich.

有一件事我觉得你不该拿来激励他们去做,

The one thing I don't think you want to give them an incentive to do is try and outdo their parents.

那就是在父母擅长的事情上,非要超过父母。

At what their parents happen to be good at.

我觉得这没有道理,不管你是职业运动员,还是有钱人,或者别的什么人,伟大的小说家也好,随便你举什么例子都一样。

I don't think that makes sense, whether you're a professional athlete or a rich person or whatever it may be, a great novelist or, you know, you name it.

但我真的觉得,如果你很有钱,而你的孩子最后变得毫无动力,我觉得——我不认为你该指责他们。

But I really think if you're rich and your kids turn out to have no incentives, I think— I don't think you should point at them.

我觉得你大概应该指向你自己。

I think you should probably point at yourself.

Charlie?

Charlie?
M2
M23:01

嗯,我不认为你能在一个富裕家庭里养孩子,还指望他们会爱上每周在大太阳底下干六十个小时、挖栅栏桩坑之类的活。

Well, I don't think you can raise children in an affluent family and have them love working 60 hours a week in the hot sun digging fence post holes or something.

那是行不通的。

That's not going to work.

所以在某种程度上,你确实是在破坏某几类激励。

So to some extent, you are destroying certain kinds of incentives.

我给你的建议是,尽量体面地接受这场仗你会输。

And my advice to you is to lose your fight as gracefully as you can.

谢谢。

Thank you.
M1
M13:35

我也不确定——如果你很穷,你是不是就能让你的孩子爱上每周工作六十个小时这件事。

I'm not sure if you can— if you're poor, if you can get your kids to love the idea of working 60 hours a week.

他们可能不得不这么做,但是——

They may have to, but—.
M2
M23:44

那些真的对某件事产生兴趣的孩子,不管他们家里多有钱,都会去努力做事;不过,像 Ajit 那样强烈的兴趣,是很少见的。

The kids that really get interested in something will work no matter how rich they are, but it's rare to have an Ajit-like intensity of interest.

你知道,要是你是个 proctologist,可能你一天干着干着,就越来越不喜欢这一天了。

You know, if you were a proctologist, you might not like your day as it went on and on.
M1
M14:04

我看我们还是往下进行吧,Becky。

I think we better move along, Becky.