假如你从今天起在两年内能成交一笔伯克希尔的股票,你就算是成功了。
当1988年波克夏股票在纽约证券交易所挂牌上市时,巴菲特半开玩笑地对经纪商说
I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.