巴菲特嘉言4

巴菲特写照

O巴菲特到纽约时喜欢与华盛顿邮报发行人葛兰姆等三、五好友一起打一整夜的桥牌，吃花生、冰淇淋与火腿三明治，这是巴菲特到大苹果时，最理想的纽约之夜。

o巴菲特说︰「我从十一岁开始就在作资金分配这个工作，一直到现在都是如此。」I've been allocating capital since I was 11 and plan to just keep doing it.

o巴菲特说︰「我对一切与数字与金钱有关的事物都非常着迷。」

o 1986年巴菲特正式宣布樱桃可口可乐为伯克希尔股东年会的指定饮料。

o巴菲特说︰「我和我喜欢的人一起工作，世界上没有任何一种工作比经营伯克希尔更有趣。」

o巴菲特说︰「基本上，我之所以加入民主党是因为当初我觉得民主党的民权政策与我的观念较接近。」

o巴菲特对子女们说︰「想过超级富翁的生活，别指望你老爸。」

o巴菲特说︰「就算是杰西欧文斯的小孩要参加百公尺赛跑，也不能享受从五十公尺线起跑的待遇。」

o巴菲特反对取消遗产税，他说︰「那就像是挑选二○○○年奥运会金牌得主的长子来组成二○二○年参赛队伍一样。」

o自1965年入主伯克希尔以来，除了曾与他的妻子联合捐赠二千五百股(现在价值一亿四千五百万美元)给四家慈善机构外，巴菲特从未将其持股出售过。

( Buffett still hasn't sold a share of the holding company he started in 1965, but he and wife Susan gave 2,500 shares, now worth $145 million, to four unnamed charities last December.)

O巴菲特说︰「一个人的寿命长短与他父母的年龄非常有关，而我一直很注意我母亲的饮食与运动习惯，她的运动脚踏车已跑了四万英哩。」

巴菲特小故事

Julian Robertson's Tiger Fund and George Soros' Quantum Fund

We don't consider ourselves in remotely the same business as Tiger and Quantum [both of which recently announced that they are closing down]. They are mostly buying and selling securities. We're structured poorly from a tax standpoint to own securities. (Corporations like Berkshire Hathaway pay a 35% tax rate on capital gains compared to 20% on long-term gains realized by private investment partnerships like Tiger and Quantum.) Munger added, Soros couldn't bear to see others make money in the technology sector without him, and he got killed. It doesn't bother us at all [that others are making money in the tech sector].

O巴菲特说︰「我对1929年的股市大崩盘感受特别深刻，当时我父亲是个股票营业员，为了躲避惨遭套牢的客户，只好整天窝在家里，而你知道那时电视还不是那么地普及，所以...嗯…我母亲大概就是那时后怀了我，大约九个月后，我于1930年的八月三十呱呱落地。」

I'm quite fond of 1929, since that's when it all began for me. My dad was a stock salesman at the time, and after the Crash came, in the fall, he was afraid to call anyone--all those people who'd been burned. So he just stayed home in the afternoons. And there wasn't television then. Soooo ... I was conceived on or about Nov. 30, 1929 (and born nine months later, on Aug. 30, 1930), and I've forever had a kind of warm feeling about the Crash.