巴菲特名言中英对照 必备39句
1. “I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am an investor.” – Warren Buffett
2. “Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.” – Warren Buffett
3. “Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble” – Warren Buffett
4. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. – Warren Buffett
5. The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. – Warren Buffett
6. “I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage — leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.” – Warren Buffett
7. Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. – Warren Buffett
8. Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked. – Warren Buffett
9. “There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?” – Warren Buffett
10. “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.” – Warren Buffett
11. “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.” – Warren Buffett
12. The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on. – Warren Buffett
13. I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one. – Warren Buffett
14. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
15. “I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute. ” – Warren Buffett
16. Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does. – Warren Buffett
17. I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about. – Warren Buffett
18. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. – Warren Buffett
19. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett
20. Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. – Warren Buffett
21. “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” – Warren Buffett
22. “If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.” – Warren Buffett
23. Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. – Warren Buffett
24. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett
25. Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don’t expect it from cheap people.” – Warren Buffett
26. “I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett
27. “If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.” – Warren Buffett
28. What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: you don’t have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital. – Warren Buffett
29. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. – Warren Buffett
30. “I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.” – Warren Buffett
31. Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. – Warren Buffett
32. It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. – Warren Buffett
33. When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. – Warren Buffett
34. The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: 'I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get. – Warren Buffett
35. “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett
36. I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter. – Warren Buffett
37. “No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.” – Warren Buffett
38. “It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.” – Warren Buffett
39. “Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.” – Warren Buffett