我?guī)缀鯊膩?lái)不翻譯文章，因?yàn)榉g是一種藝術(shù)，不是人人都適合從事翻譯工作的。不過(guò)，在看到沃倫-巴菲特回答Emory大學(xué)商學(xué)院學(xué)生的這個(gè)問(wèn)題之后，我決定嘗試一次。因?yàn)檫@段回答實(shí)在太美妙了。如果你原先不尊敬巴菲特，這段回答能讓你尊敬他；如果你原先就尊敬巴菲特，這段回答能讓你崇拜他?！　　　?br>Emory大學(xué)學(xué)生：　　　你怎么定義幸福？你活中的什么事物使你感覺(jué)最幸福？當(dāng)你做了一筆成功的投資，你會(huì)允許自己興高采烈地享受成功嗎？從另一面講，如果一筆投資失敗了，你會(huì)不會(huì)感覺(jué)到同樣的失望？或者說(shuō)，你嘗試盡可能地把感情排除出你的工作？
　　　巴菲特：
　　　　我享受我做的事情，我每天都跳著踢踏舞去工作。我和我喜歡的人一起工作，做我喜歡的事情。我唯一希望盡可能避免的事情是解雇員工。我把我的時(shí)間用來(lái)思考未來(lái)，而不是過(guò)去。未來(lái)是激動(dòng)人心的。正如伯特蘭德-羅素說(shuō)的，“成功是得到自己想要的，快樂(lè)是想要自己得到的。”我出生的那天贏得了卵巢彩票（注：指精子發(fā)育為受精卵的過(guò)程），你們所有人都一樣。我們都很成功，聰明，受過(guò)教育。專(zhuān)注于那些你沒(méi)有的東西是一個(gè)可怕的錯(cuò)誤。在我們?nèi)巳藫碛械奶熨x之下，如果你仍然不快樂(lè)，那是你自己的錯(cuò)誤。
　　　　我認(rèn)識(shí)一個(gè)八十多歲的婦人，她是一個(gè)波蘭猶太人，曾經(jīng)和全家一起被趕進(jìn)集中營(yíng)，其中有人死在了里面。她說(shuō)：“我慢慢地開(kāi)始交朋友，因?yàn)槲铱粗藗儯X海中有一個(gè)問(wèn)題：他們會(huì)把我藏起來(lái)嗎？”如果你到了我這個(gè)歲數(shù)（注：沃倫-巴菲特已經(jīng)年滿77歲），或者年輕一點(diǎn)，而有一大群人愿意把你藏起來(lái)，那么你完全可以為自己過(guò)去的生活感到驕傲。我認(rèn)識(shí)一些出現(xiàn)在《財(cái)富》400富豪排行榜上的人，他們的子女不會(huì)把他們藏起來(lái)的。（他們的子女會(huì)說(shuō)：） “他在閣樓上面！他在閣樓上面！”其中有些人占據(jù)著董事會(huì)席位，或者獲得名譽(yù)學(xué)位，借此褒揚(yáng)自己；但這不會(huì)改變事實(shí) ——在他們死了之后，沒(méi)有人會(huì)有一丁點(diǎn)在乎他們。世界上最強(qiáng)大的力量是無(wú)條件的愛(ài)。把它私藏起來(lái)是人生的巨大錯(cuò)誤。你給別人的愛(ài)越多，你獲得的回報(bào)就越多。從個(gè)人角度來(lái)講，重要的是誰(shuí)對(duì)你有價(jià)值，你就一定要對(duì)他們有價(jià)值
　　　　如果你能購(gòu)買(mǎi)一個(gè)同班同學(xué)未來(lái)收入的10%，你會(huì)怎么做？你不會(huì)購(gòu)買(mǎi)那些IQ最高的人，成績(jī)最好的人，等等，但你會(huì)買(mǎi)那些給你留下最深刻印象的人。你喜歡那些慷慨的人，盡力而為的人，正直坦率的人?，F(xiàn)在想象一下你可以賣(mài)空你的一個(gè)同班同學(xué)的10%。當(dāng)你開(kāi)始環(huán)顧整個(gè)房間的時(shí)候，這一般會(huì)更有趣?？纯茨切](méi)有人愿意與之相處的人，那些惹人厭惡或者只顧自己利益的人。如果你有一副500匹馬力的引擎卻只發(fā)揮出了50馬力，你會(huì)被另外一個(gè)擁有 300匹馬力引擎卻發(fā)揮出了250馬力的人擊敗。潛在能力和實(shí)際發(fā)揮之間的區(qū)別取決于人的品質(zhì)。你可以列出你最仰慕的品質(zhì)，以及你最厭惡的那些。轉(zhuǎn)換一下角色，想想如果這是我對(duì)以上品質(zhì)的反應(yīng)，這個(gè)世界對(duì)我會(huì)有怎樣的反應(yīng)？你可以學(xué)著養(yǎng)成那些你想要的品質(zhì)，戒掉那些你不想要的品質(zhì)。你很難察覺(jué)由習(xí)慣構(gòu)成的枷鎖；一旦你察覺(jué)到了，又很難破除它。你不可能到了60歲才去改變；現(xiàn)在就是做一個(gè)列表的時(shí)候了。
　　　　
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　　　　How do you define happiness and what about your life makes you most happy? When you make good on an investment, do you allow yourself to enjoy that success by getting excited - and on the flip-side, when an investment turns down, do you find yourself equally disappointed - or do you try to remove emotion from your work, as much as possible?

　　　　
　　I enjoy what I do, I tap dance to work every day. I work with people I love, doing what I love. The only thing I would pay to get rid of is firing people. I spend my time thinking about the future, not the past. The future is exciting. As Bertrand Russell says, “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” I won the ovarian lottery the day I was born and so did all of you. We’re all successful, intelligent, educated. To focus on what you don’t have is a terrible mistake. With the gifts all of us have, if you are unhappy, it’s your own fault.
　　　I know a woman in her 80’s, a Polish Jew woman forced into a concentration camp with her family but not all of them came out. She says, “I am slow to make friends because when I look at people, I have one question in mind; would they hide me?” If you get to be my age, or younger for that matter, and have a lot of people that would hide you, then you can feel pretty good about how you’ve lived your life. I know people on the Forbes 400 list whose children would not hide them. “He’s in the attic, he’s in the attic.” Some of them keep compensating by joining board seats or getting honorary degrees, but it doesn’t change the fact that no one will give a damn when they are gone. The most powerful force in the world is unconditional love. To horde it is a terrible mistake in life. The more you try to give it away, the more you get it back. At an individual level, it’s important to make sure that for the people that count to you, you count to them
　　　　What if you could buy 10% of one of your classmates and their future earnings? You wouldn’t buy the ones with the highest IQ, the best grades, etc, but the most effective. You like people who are generous, go out of their way, straight shooters. Now imagine that you could short 10% of one of your classmates. This part is usually more fun as you start looking around the room. You wouldn’t choose the ones with the poorest grades. Look for people nobody wants to be around, that are obnoxious or like to take all the credit. If you have a 500 HP engine and only get 50 HP out of it, you’ll be beat by someone else that has a 300 HP engine but gets 250 HP output. The difference between potential and output comes from human qualities. You can make a list of the qualities you admire and those you despise. To turn the tables, think if this is the way I react to the qualities on the list, which is the way the world will react to me. You can learn to turn on those qualities you want and turn off those qualities you wish to avoid. The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. You can’t change at 60; the time to look at that list is now.; N* v8 h+ e9 G
　　
德克薩斯大學(xué)奧斯丁分校學(xué)生： 　　　　
　　　你擁有商業(yè)的成功，巨額的財(cái)富，以及崇高的聲望，為什么你仍然如此平易近人、如此謙虛？在你的一生中，是否有什么特殊的人，或者學(xué)到了什么特殊的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，使你保持這種生活態(tài)度？　　　　
　巴菲特：　　　　我很幸運(yùn)，成為了一個(gè)恰當(dāng)?shù)挠⑿?。告訴我你們心目中的英雄是誰(shuí)，我會(huì)告訴你你將來(lái)會(huì)成為什么樣的人。你一生中最重要的工作之一將是撫養(yǎng)子女。他們從你這里學(xué)到的會(huì)比他們從研究生院學(xué)到的更多。我的父親對(duì)我造成了巨大的影響，后來(lái)格雷厄姆（注：即“華爾街教父”本杰明-格雷厄姆）也出現(xiàn)了。我的英雄從來(lái)沒(méi)有讓我失望。
　　　　我和我自己的成功沒(méi)有任何關(guān)系。我父親是一個(gè)證券經(jīng)紀(jì)人，在大股災(zāi)（注：指1929年的股災(zāi)）之后，他沒(méi)有任何可以聯(lián)系的人。緊接著，我出生在1930年的美國(guó)，一個(gè)最偉大的資本市場(chǎng)的時(shí)代。我和資本資產(chǎn)配置的武器一起出生。我在正確的時(shí)間擁有正確的武器。氣質(zhì)是我的一個(gè)非常重要的武器。我天生就善于運(yùn)用氣質(zhì)，并且通過(guò)交流反饋了進(jìn)一步提高它。沒(méi)有任何傲慢的理由。蓋茨說(shuō)如果我出生的早了一點(diǎn)，我可能早已變成某些動(dòng)物的午餐了。我不能跑步，我不能攀爬。我會(huì)討論資本配置，而動(dòng)物會(huì)想，“那些人是最好吃的。”你們都贏得了卵巢彩票。沒(méi)有任何理由感到內(nèi)疚?！　　　∥覐膩?lái)沒(méi)有捐獻(xiàn)我自己生活必須的哪怕一角錢(qián)。有許多人去教堂，把錢(qián)放在捐款盤(pán)里，這些錢(qián)絕對(duì)會(huì)影響他們的生活方式，影響他們吃什么，他們能給自己的子女買(mǎi)什么禮物。沒(méi)有必要因?yàn)槟切┠銢](méi)有控制的事情而趾高氣揚(yáng)",
　　　Given your business success, your immense fortune, and your celebrity status, how do you stay so down to earth and humble? Are there specific people or lessons you have learned throughout your life that enable you to maintain this outlook　　　　
　　　
　　　　I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be. One of your most important jobs in life will be raising your children. They will learn more from you than they will in graduate school. My father was a huge influence, and later on Graham came along. I was also never let down by my heroes
　　　　I had nothing to do with my own success. My father was a securities broker and after the Great Crash, he had no one to call. Consequently, I was born in 1930 in the United States during the time of one of the greatest capital markets. I was born with the wiring for capital asset allocation. I had the right wiring at the right time. Temperament is a large part of my wiring. I was naturally good at it, and I used some feedback to develop it better. There is nothing to be arrogant about. Gates says if I had been born earlier, I would’ve been some animal’s lunch. I can’t run, I can’t climb. I’d be talking about allocating capital and the animal would think, “Those are the kind that taste the best.” You have all won the ovarian lottery. There is no reason to feel guilty about it.
　　I have never given away a dime that has any meaning on how I live. There are people that go to church and they put money in the offering plate that truly makes a difference in how they will live their lives, what they will eat, what presents they will buy for their children. There’s no reason to get puffed up over things you didn’t control　　
　以下問(wèn)題是這個(gè)問(wèn)答中最后一個(gè)有趣的問(wèn)題（巴菲特回答所有投資問(wèn)題都非常無(wú)趣，你可以在他的信里找到相關(guān)章節(jié)，哪一年的無(wú)所謂，反正每年的信幾乎都長(zhǎng)的一樣），也是最后一個(gè)問(wèn)題。
　　　　德克薩斯大學(xué)奧斯丁分校學(xué)生：　　　　
　　　　總是有人提到你的成功應(yīng)該部分歸功于沒(méi)有陷入華爾街的狂熱情緒，因?yàn)槟阕≡趭W馬哈——你認(rèn)為在工作和生活之間保持恰當(dāng)?shù)钠胶庥卸嘀匾?？你怎樣保持恰?dāng)?shù)钠胶猓?br>　　　巴菲特：
　　　在工作之外我有太多的樂(lè)趣。我做自己想做的，去自己想去的地方——乘坐小船，等等。我的妻子負(fù)責(zé)撫養(yǎng)子女。我們兩個(gè)對(duì)這種安排都沒(méi)有問(wèn)題，而且它符合亞當(dāng)-斯密的“勞動(dòng)分工”理論。這對(duì)于女性來(lái)說(shuō)是一個(gè)更加艱難的選擇，而且總是有那么一點(diǎn)不公平。在我的個(gè)人生活中我?guī)缀醪粎⒓幼约翰幌胱龅幕顒?dòng)或會(huì)議。在我成年之后的商業(yè)生活中，我從來(lái)沒(méi)有被迫選擇在職業(yè)和個(gè)人生活之間進(jìn)行交換。我擁有簡(jiǎn)單的樂(lè)趣。我每個(gè)星期在網(wǎng)上玩12個(gè)小時(shí)的橋牌。比爾（注：即比爾- 蓋茨）和我一起玩，他的代號(hào)是"chalengr", 而我是"tbone　　　　
　在哈佛的一場(chǎng)講座之后，我告訴他們?yōu)樽约鹤钛瞿降娜斯ぷ?，結(jié)果他們都成了自由職業(yè)者（自我雇傭）。為你仰慕的某個(gè)人或某個(gè)組織工作是很重要的。我很少見(jiàn)到男性被迫做出艱難的選擇。但是女性會(huì)面臨艱難的情形。
　　　　　　There is always mention that some of your success could be attributed to not buying in to the Wall Street mania b/c you are in Omaha—what importance do you give to balance as it pertains to work and life and what do you do to maintain your appropriate balance?. 　　
Buffett:
　　　　I have so much fun that it’s not work. I get to do what I want, where I want – on a boat, wherever. My wife was responsible for bringing up the children. Neither of us had problems with that arrangement, and it made sense from an Adam Smith “division of labor” perspective. It will be a much tougher choice for women, and always be somewhat unequal. In my own life I did virtually no social functions or meetings that I didn’t want to do. In my adult business life I have never had to make a choice of trading between professional and personal. I have simple pleasures. I play bridge online for 12 hours a week. Bill and I play, he’s “chalengr” and I’m “tbone
　　　　

　　After a talk at Harvard, I told them to work for who they admired the most, so they all become self-employed. It’s important to go to work for someone or some organization you admire. I’ve not seen many males having to make tough choices. But women are the ones who have tough situations.

　　　我只打算翻譯這三個(gè)問(wèn)題。其他問(wèn)題沒(méi)有多少新意，各位可以自己去尋找它們的答案。Emory大學(xué)商學(xué)院的Dang Le擁有關(guān)于這次演講的最詳細(xì)的記錄，你們可以在他的博客上找到，或者直接與他聯(lián)系以獲得完整版。Emory大學(xué)和德克薩斯大學(xué)奧斯丁分?？赡艽嬗斜敬窝葜v的原始記錄。