巴菲特语录
- You can‘t make a good deal with a bad person.
- 和一个道德品质败坏的人,无法完成一桩好交易。
- It‘s easier to stay out of trouble than it is to get out of trouble.
- 与其杀死毒龙,不如避开毒龙。
- The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.
- 市场就象上帝,只帮助那些努力的人;但与上帝不同,市场不会宽恕那些不清楚自己在干什么的人。
- My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.
- [<巴菲特如是说>书上的翻译是:我觉得对镜成二人就是集体决策]
- The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.
- 对于企业而言,糟糕的运作加上混乱的管理,结果常常是一笔糊涂帐。
- You can always juice sales by going down-market, but it‘s hard to go back upmarket.
- 当市场下跌时,你轻易的将好东西打折变卖,但是一旦市场向上,再想买回来,难之又难。
- You have to think for yourself. It always amazes me how high-IQ people mindlessly imitate. I never get good ideas talking to other people.
- 你必须独立思考。我常常惊讶于:一些智商极高的人在市场上无意识的跟随大众,和这些人聊天对于我毫无益处。
- In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity because if they don‘t have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you.
- 在你雇佣人之前,你需要确认他的三项素质:正直诚实,聪明能干,精力充沛。但是最重要的是正直诚实,因为如果他不正直诚实而又具备了聪明能干和精力充沛,你的好日子也就到头了。
- Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
- 千万不要问理发师是否需要理发。
- A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
- 一个公开的民意测验无法代替思考。
- If you let yourself be undisciplined on the small things, you will probably be undisciplined on the large things as well.
- 如果你在小事上无原则,那么大事上一样没有原则。
- The fact that people are full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
- 人性的弱点总是充满贪婪、恐惧或者是愚蠢,这是完全可以预测的,但是我们无法预测这种人性弱点的发生顺序。
- We also believe candor benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads others in public may eventually mislead himself in private.
- 我相信,坦诚的公司的管理层会使投资人受益。那些在公开场所误导别人的CEO最终会在私下里误导自己。
- What we learn from history is that people don‘t learn from history.
- 我在历史中学到的唯一东西就是:大众从未从历史中汲取教训。
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