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Buffett and his wealth of life: snowball
  September 29, 2008, the world's richest man, Warren Buffett (Warren Buffett) of the biography "The Snowball" (The Snowball) freshly baked. The contents of the book is self-evident, the reader a glimpse of Buffett's investment philosophy and decision-making power.
  Biographer Alice Schroeder, an investment analyst (Alice Schroeder), she was allowed to close contact with the honor "of the most successful investor", and the accumulation of bits and pieces into a book. Unlike in the past, biography shows a sweater wearing old Buffett, who is a trace of weird homage to Buffett. The following is an excerpt from the biography part of the fun, let's preview.
  Bridge game, "The Wall Street Journal", U2
  "Most of the night, at home and Astrid Buffett (his second wife) for dinner, eat pork burgers and the like. A few hours later, he started playing online bridge games, which is His enthusiasm for the project every night, he takes a week to 12 hours. He seems to not mind the screen background noise, Astrid let him play games, and occasionally he would call her: 'Astrid, give me a Coke! '"(p. 30)
  "In Ernest (his grandfather) family, a bookshelf, a collection of" Progressive Grocer "magazine each issue, Warren always read with great interest. 'How to purchase a butcher' of the topic to his classes fascinated. "
  "Buffett is like" The Wall Street Journal "and the local newspaper he made a special dealer transactions. Every night," The Wall Street Journal, "one to Omaha (Omaha), will have to be out of a newspaper, before midnight on Buffett's driveway. He likes to wait for the next day's newspaper, we have not got in the newspapers before the preview. "(p. 528)
  "'U2 attracted me is not their music, but Bono (Bono, U2 lead singer) how revenue sharing, so that the band's four convinced.'" (P. 766)
  Smart move, and missed opportunities
  "The end of 1944, Warren first reported his income tax returns. Although the tax is only $ 7, but in response to this small loss, he also counted as a belt and bicycle at public expense. He knew that to do so people feel doubt, but that time he has not money so detached now. "(p. 83)
  "There was a time, Buffett said, they want to buy a low-cost Federal Housing Administration, Maryland auction town, the town has the post office, town hall and a number of low market price of the rental property. But even if 'low price ', the town is also too expensive, they can not raise enough cash. "(219 ~ 220 pages)
  "Buffett enjoyed a happy Christmas, that was in 1987, he tasted some of Coca-Cola. This more or less make up for his investment in the Solomon case, the unpleasant encounter. Before a dinner at the White House, he met old Tang Jiao (Don Keough) - then the president of Coca-Cola Company. Buffett was like the cherry syrup formulations Pepsi, Keogh produced to persuade him to try new Cherry Coke. Buffett tasted and fell in love the kind of taste. "(p. 551)
  Philosophy of Life
  "It depends on how the performance of their own inner scorecard scorecard or the outside world. If you can use the scorecard to measure their own heart, and feel satisfied, it would be most valuable." (P. 33)
  "I did not inherit wealth from their parents, speak the truth, I do not want to inherit from them. But I'm in the right place and time of birth, and I won the ovarian lottery." (P. 43)
  "If you're in the right snow, snowball rolling up and naturally, I was so. The so-called snowball, I do not just mean making money. It means that you realize this world for the accumulation and friends. You need to spend time to choose, first of all they have to be willing to attach the type of snow. moving forward, always rolling from the surrounding snow, because you can not go back to the Peak. "(p. 830)
  Family, love and brotherhood
  "Buffett and his son Howie (Howie) deal to rent the farm - the weight of the decision by the Howie. Buffett believes that his son should be re-182.5 lbs. Once Howie over this weight, he'll have to farm 26% of the total income paid to Warren Buffett. if not more than, he need only pay 22%. even on the deal, Buffett how to not lose. he either get more money, or have a more slender son. "(520 pages)
  "Bill III (later to become Microsoft CEO Bill Gates) to be brought, see Warren Buffett. Buffett skips the unnecessary pleasantries, directly asked Bill what will the future of IBM, will become Microsoft's competitors. ... Gates explained carefully .... ... ... Two minutes later, two very speculative to talk. ... ... them to continue talking, ignoring celebrities around Seattle. ... ... (they) walk on the pebble beach. They began to enjoy each other. " (p. 622 ~ 623)
  凯利姆巴蒂 hope "stone books" (Slate) columnist
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第1节:不作逢迎
  1. 不作逢迎
  沃伦·巴菲特靠向椅子的后背,长腿交叉于膝,坐在他父亲那张简朴的木桌后面。他那件价值不菲的杰尼亚上装在肩膀处束皱成一团,像一件未经剪裁、批量生产的成衣。每天,无论伯克希尔·哈撒韦总部的其他15名员工如何随意着装,他的这件衣服都会24小时保持这个样子。他穿着一件普通无奇的白衬衫,衬衣领子太小,被撑得鼓鼓的,远离领结一大截,看上去像是他当年轻商人时留下来的,而且在过去四十年他似乎都忘了量一量脖子的尺寸。
  他的手穿过几缕花白头发,抱于脑后。粗浓、蓬松的右眉毛耸在玳瑁眼镜上方。很多时候,这眉毛展示出他的怀疑、知情了然或是迷惑不解。一眨眼功夫,他又会带上一丝不易察觉的微笑,令任性的眉毛增添迷人魅力。不过,他那淡蓝色的眼睛精光聚敛,若有所思。
  窗外,奥马哈晚春的清晨景色怡人,但是褐色的木制百叶窗窗门紧闭,遮蔽了满帘春色。冲着桌子方向播放的电视被调到CNBC频道。虽然电视没有声音,但屏幕最下方滚动的文字全天都在满足巴菲特的新闻需求。有好几年,里面播放的新闻经常都与巴菲特有关,这让他感到很高兴。
  然而实际上,只有廖廖数人非常的了解巴菲特。我和他相识了6年,一开始,我的身份是研究伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司股票的金融分析师。一段时间之后,我们之间建立了友谊。但如今,我依然需要更好的去认识他、了解他。我们坐在沃伦的办公室里的原因是,他不打算自己动手写一本书。动来动去的眉毛配合着说话的节奏,他反复说道:“你会干得比我更好,爱丽斯。我很高兴是你来写这本书,而不是我。”他这么说的原因之后会一一道出。话语之间,我们开始从最接近他内心的东西聊起。
  “沃伦,这念头到底怎么形成的?对赚钱竟会如此的用心?”
  他的眼神望向远处,看了一会儿,脑中思绪万千:跳跃、搜寻那些储存在大脑中的记忆。然后,沃伦开始讲他的故事:“巴尔扎克说,每一笔财富的背后都隐藏着一桩罪恶,但伯克希尔决非如此。”
  他从椅子上跃起,收回思维,几大步跨过房间。落身坐进一把金芥末色的扶手椅子,他身子前倾,那神情不像一位72岁的金融家,更像是一个炫耀初恋的少年。如何诠释这个故事,要采访其他哪些人,内容要写些什么:这本书由我全权构思。巴菲特详尽谈论了人类天性和记忆力的脆弱,然后说道:“当我的观点和他人不同的时候,无论什么时候,爱丽斯,选择不太讨巧的那个。”
  巴菲特给我上了很多课,其中最精彩的一些就来自对他的观察。第一堂课就是:以谦卑之态而屈人之兵。
第2节:沃伦,你怎么了?(1)
  4 沃伦,你怎么了?
  巴菲特的300亿美元财产几乎全部——99%——投资于伯克希尔·哈撒韦的股票。他在太阳谷曾谈到过,市场称重功能如何比投票功能更重要。但正是投票机对伯克希尔·哈撒韦股票的看法决定了他演讲之后的股票价格。人们之所以关注他是因为他富有。因此,当他预期市场可能令投资者失望上17年的时候,他是站在悬崖边上,他很清楚这点。如果他错了,他不仅会成为太阳谷的笑柄,而且在全球最富有的人的记录本手册上,他的个人排名也会下降。巴菲特可是很关注这个排名。
  整个1990年代的末期,伯克希尔·哈撒韦的股票BRK令他名声大噪,因为BRK的表现远远超过市场水平,并持续到1998年6月的每股80 900美元。伯克希尔·哈撒韦的一股股票就可以买一套小型的产权独立公寓,这在美国公司中是绝无仅有的现象。对巴菲特而言,公司股票价格是衡量其成功的简易标尺。从巴菲特以7.5美元/股的价格买下BRK的那天起,BRK就一路处于上升曲线。即使股票市场在1990年代末ROCK,但是购买BRK并坚持持有的投资人获利不菲,一直到1999年。
  但是此时,巴菲特发现他自己站在一类不受欢迎的股票的下沉平台上,看着“T&T”(信息技术和电讯行业)类股票上涨。1999年8月,BRK跌到65 000美元/股。对一家大型成熟、每年为投资者赚4亿美元企业,应该支付多少钱呢?对一家小型新生、亏钱的企业,又应该支付什么价格呢?
  ·Toys“R”Us公司每年赚4亿美元,年销售额110亿美元。
  ·eToys公司每年亏1.23亿美元,销售额只有1亿美元。
  市场投票机号称eToys价值49亿美元,而Toy “R”Us公司价值10亿美元,低于前者。这其中的假设是eToys公司将通过互联网冲击Toys“R”Us公司。
  悬于市场上空的疑云在于时间问题。专家们都预期灾难可能在1999年12月31日午夜发生,因为全球的计算机的程序不能解决“2”开头的日期问题。害怕市场产生恐慌,FED开始迅速增加货币供应量以解决现金短缺问题,以防全国的ATM机立马被冻结。因此,经过FED的增压推动,太阳谷年会之后不久,市场急速上升,就像7月4日国庆日的爆竹。如果你在1月份在NASDAQ(全部由信息技术股票组成的股票指数)市场投资了1美元,那你下的赌注现在就是1.25美元。而投在BRK上的赌注只值80美分。到十二月,道琼斯工业平均指数年底收盘上涨了25%。而NASDAQ则BLAST突破了4,000点大关,不可思议的上涨了86%。BRK下跌到56,100美元/股。仅仅几个月时间,BRK过去几年的领先地位就被大大动摇了。