Wise words from Warren Buffet

「如果你正直，那就意味著一切；如果你不正直，那你就什麼都不是。」

——巴菲特

我們談到許多議題時，最常聽到的評論是：「是制度出了問題。」

我做為一名曾經學習法律、短暫待在律師事務所並體驗其中的「奧妙」，又曾經進入立法院起草及否決許多法案。我必須說：聰明、不正直的人，往往有能力規避法律：若是還擁有權力外加財富，他（她）甚至可以爲自己訂製「合法貪污掠奪」的法條。

此次《巴菲特波克夏年會》兩位聰明絕頂的合夥人，表達了類似意見：

談正直與誠信。現場有股東提問投資企業為何要簡化決策時，巴老的回答是，靠法律文件和律師無法解決人的問題，主要需要衡量人的品行，是否正直，誠實，和努力。如果是不誠實的員工，最好是不努力，因為努力的壞員工結果或許更糟。

1987年，巴菲特重金購買所羅門公司的可轉換優先股，結果所羅門發行部負責人保羅.莫澤多次違規囤積國債，差點導致伯克希爾遭遇投資上的「滑鐵盧」。60歲的巴菲特臨危受命，擔任所羅門臨時董事會主席，力輓狂瀾才終於使所羅門兄弟度過難關。

巴菲特對這筆投資始終耿耿於懷，因而在考察企業經營者時，各位關注企業的品格。他認為，「考察企業經營者時應重點考察三項特徵：正直、智慧與活力，如果不具備第一項，那後面兩項會害了你」。

巴老的小兒子彼得.巴菲特在其書《做你自己》中所言：「經濟上的繁榮一向起起伏伏，唯有人的價值觀是最穩健的貨幣，它為我們贏得自尊，贏得心裡的安寧，帶來豐厚的回報」。

查理芒格：「如果我們在生活中唯一的成功就是通過買股票發財，那麼這是一種失敗的生活。成功的投資只是我們小心謀劃、專注行事的生活方式的副產品。我們要能夠比其他人更快更準確地分析出任何種類的交易，能夠在60秒內找出令人信服的弱點。但是，生活不僅僅是精明地積累財富。」
股東大會現場二老被問道是如何追尋快樂的，二老的回答話鋒一致，「吃喜歡的東西，跟喜歡的人在一起，做自己喜歡的事情。

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Buffet spoke mandarin or wrote chink?

Narong Wongwan said:

Buffet spoke mandarin or wrote chink?

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This is Taiwanese website, not China.

ginfreely said:

This is Taiwanese website, not China.

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Still I dun think Buffett speaks chink.
Real meaning will get lost in translation....especially with chink language

That old geezer eats way too much fast food and gives smart-ass reasons for doing so. I wouldn't take his advice seriously.

he say when everybody is greedy,you should retreat
when everybody else is kia si, you should be greedy

JohnTan said:

That old geezer eats way too much fast food and gives smart-ass reasons for doing so. I wouldn't take his advice seriously.

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They may be smart-ass reasons to you but the truth to him as the statistical one percent who can take fast food. And he will still be the man who walks the talk!

JohnTan said:

That old geezer eats way too much fast food and gives smart-ass reasons for doing so. I wouldn't take his advice seriously.

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What's wrong with giving smart-ass reasons for eating way too much fast food?

ginfreely said:

They may be smart-ass reasons to you but the truth to him as the statistical one percent who can take fast food. And he will still be the man who walks the talk!

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Warren buffett is proof that he who walks the talk has the money. Only monkey will bullshit the walk.

ginfreely said:

They may be smart-ass reasons to you but the truth to him as the statistical one percent who can take fast food. And he will still be the man who walks the talk!

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Donald Trump is also well known for liking MacDonald's fillet o fish, another one who has thrived on fast food.

jw5 said:

Donald Trump is also well known for liking MacDonald's fillet o fish, another one who has thrived on fast food.

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This article says he is also a teetotaler who "washes meals back with Diet Coke".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...aedb18-eaf0-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html

The world is Trump’s oyster, but he prefers Filet-O-Fish
By Tom Sietsema FoodMarch 24

Donald Trump ate steak when he launched his Trump Steaks brand at the Sharper Image in 2007. But what the GOP front-runner really seems to prefer is fast food. (Stephen Lovekin/WireImage for Hill & Knowlton)
First in an occasional series about the eating habits of the presidential candidates.

For some people, what’s coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth is downright scary. Almost as frightening, at least to those of us who see the stomach as a window to the soul, is what is going in.

Wendy’s on his custom Boeing 757 while campaigning with Jerry Falwell Jr. in Iowa. McDonald’s with advisers during a swing through New Hampshire. Two eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns and two biscuits at the Ham House during a pit stop in Greenville, S.C.

The world is his oyster, but that’s not what he’s consuming. The front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination eats like a teenage boy, inhaling Filets-o-Fish and Big Macs. “It’s great stuff,” he says of his fast-food habit. At a time when growing, cooking and enjoying food in the United States is yuuuuge, his preferences are surprisingly pedestrian — and passe, as if Alice Waters had never been born and food were fuel (albeit dirty gas as opposed to premium).


[Trump Steaks are so rare we can’t even find one]

The craziest thing he says he has eaten on the road? Oreos. His go-to drink? The teetotaler washes meals back with Diet Coke, an ironic choice given that the vain billionaire once tweeted, “I have never seen a thin person drink Diet Coke.”

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ginfreely said:

This article says he is also a teetotaler who "washes meals back with Diet Coke".

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Apparently Bill Gates is also a big fan of diet coke.

wtf is this chink shit?

[video=youtube;_5VQPIeZhMc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5VQPIeZhMc[/video]

Asterix said:

[video=youtube;_5VQPIeZhMc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5VQPIeZhMc[/video]

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Time to go buy Coke?