I wrote all the checks individually.
我亲自写每一张支票
I filed 11 income-tax returns.
我填了11张所得税申报单
I took delivery on stocks for all these different companies.
我为各种企业购买股票
I,I was a one-man band there for six years.
六年间我就是一个人的品牌
Warren would sit upstairs in his little office there,
沃伦会坐在他楼上的小办公室里
and I would bring up the name of a company,
我会提出公司的名字
and most of the time he knew much more than I did about the company.
大多数时候他了解公司比我要多
He'd know how many shares were outstanding.
他知道有多少份额还没偿付
He'd know the capitalization. He'd know the earnings.
他知道总资本 知道收入
It was absolutely incredible.
真是令人难以置信
I mean when Warren said something,it meant a heck of a lot,
我是指沃伦说了什么 就意味着很多
and I think all of us paid a lot of attention to Warren when he took a definite stand on something.
我认为当他对某件事有明确的立场时 我们向他投去了太多关注
When I first met Warren back in 1959,
当我1959年第一次见到沃伦回来
I recognized immediately that he was a very intelligent person.
我立马发现他是一个非常聪明的人
For the last four or five years,the stock market has been booming along
过去四五年 股市告诉运行
and presumably forecasting better business,which has really not materialized,
大概预测了还未成型的更佳产业
so maybe the stock market is really correcting a previous incorrect forecast this time rather than making a new correct one.
所以股票市场是在纠正之前的错误预测 而不死做正确的预测
He made a lot of money buying thinly traded securities that were incredibly cheap statistically.
他花了很多钱购买很便宜的可交易证券