我沒有宿舍,所以我睡在友人家裡的地板上,
靠著回收可樂空罐的退費五分錢買吃的。
每個星期天晚上得走七哩的路,
繞過大半個鎮 去印度教的 Hare Krishna 神廟吃頓好料,
我喜歡 Hare Krishna 神廟的好料。
就這樣追隨我的好奇與直覺,大部分我所投入過的事務, 後來看來都成了無比珍貴的經歷 (And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on )。
這帖藥很苦口,可是我想蘋果電腦這個病人需要這帖藥。 有時候,人生會用磚頭打你的頭。不要喪失信心。 我確信我愛我所做的事情, 這就是這些年來支持我繼續走下去的唯一理由 (I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did)。 你得找出你的最愛, 工作上是如此,人生伴侶也是如此。
你的工作將佔掉你人生的一大部分, 唯一真正獲得滿足的方法就是做你相信是偉大的工作, 而唯一做偉大工作的方法是 愛你所做的事 ( And the only way to do great work is to love what you do )。
因為幾乎每件事--所有外界期望、所有的名聲、 所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼-在面對死亡時,都消失了, 只有最真實重要的東西才會留下 ( Remember-ing that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important )。
不要讓別人的意見淹沒了你內在的心聲。 最重要的,擁有追隨自己內心與直覺的勇氣, 你的內心與直覺多少已經知道你真正想要成為什麼樣的人 (have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become), 任何其他事物都是次要的。 (聽眾鼓掌)
在我年輕時,有本神奇的雜誌叫做 《Whole Earth Catalog》,
當年這可是我們的經典讀物。
那是位住在離這不遠的 Menlo Park 的 Stewart Brand發行的,
他把雜誌辦得很有詩意。
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) added about $4 billion in common stock to its investments during the third quarter, taking advantage of undervalued equities as stock markets slid.
The net change, described by Buffett today in a Bloomberg Television interview, compares with $3.4 billion in the second quarter. That was the most since Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire plowed a net $3.6 billion into stocks during the third quarter of 2008, the height of the global credit crisis.
“We’re ready to buy lots of things,” Buffett, 81, said in the interview with Betty Liu on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Berkshire’s program to purchase its own stock, announced earlier this week, “won’t keep us from investing billions and billions and billions in plants and equipment, in new acquisitions.”
Berkshire, which had a $67.6 billion equity portfolio as of June 30, is focusing on stocks after its cash hoard swelled and interest ratesremained near record lows. Equities markets around the world fell during the third quarter amid speculation that Europe will fail to contain its sovereign debt crisis and that the U.S. economy will weaken.
Earnings from Berkshire’s businesses have grown to about $1 billion a month, and finding uses for that cash has become more difficult, Buffett said in April. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index dropped 12 percent from the end of June through yesterday, heading for the worst quarterly performance since the last three months of 2008, while the Stoxx 600 Europe Index tumbled 16 percent.
Buying When ‘Cheap’
Buffett, the company’s chairman and chief executive officer, excluded the firm’s $5 billion purchase of Bank of America Corp. (BAC)’s preferred stock from his $4 billion estimate for common-stock investments. The deal with the Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender pays $300 million in annual dividends and gave Berkshire warrants to purchase 700 million shares of common stock for $7.14 each.
Berkshire, which has shunned buybacks for four decades, said Sept. 26 that it will repurchase shares for as much as 110 percent of their book value because the stock is undervalued. The firm has since started procuring them.
Its Class A shares had slipped below $100,000 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading on Sept. 22 for the first time since January 2009. They traded at $108,400 as of 11:43 a.m. today.
“If the stock is cheap, we will buy it,” Buffett said. “If it isn’t cheap, we won’t buy it.”