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Who's got the most 100 dollars bills these days?
这些天谁赚得最多的100美元钞票
Well, his name is Warren Buffett in this country,
是这个国家名叫沃伦巴菲特的人
and he has just displaced his friend Bill Gates
他取代了他的朋友比尔盖茨
as the richest businessman in the world.
成为世界上最有钱的商人
And the purpose of Wednesday's meeting was to discuss
周三会议的目的是讨论
Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway's plan to purchase railroad giant Burlington Northern,valued at 26 billion dollars.
巴菲特的公司伯克希尔哈撒韦计划以260亿美元的估值购买北伯灵顿铁路
This would be Buffett's largest acquisition ever.
这会是巴菲特最大的一笔收购
He's created Berkshire from virtually nothing into hundreds of billions of dollars of market cap.
他把伯克希尔从零带到几千亿美元的市值
Nobody else has a record like that.
没有人有这样的记录
He wanted to have an outstanding reputation that he'd never really upset the apple cart when he bought a business,
他希望拥有杰出的声誉 不会在收购企业时搞砸
that he kept the management in place.
保持适当管理
He was establishing a reputation that paid off later in life.
他建立了在后半生见到成效的声誉
It's been building and building ever since I've known him.
从我知道他时他就已经建立起来
It takes 20 years to build a reputation,then it takes five minutes to lose it.
他花了20年来建立声誉 只花了五分钟失去
