巴菲特的这次演讲是我最喜欢的演讲之一,讲的大道理不多,但确是至理名言,仅仅通过一个智力测试就把人生中最重要的道理通俗易懂地表达出来,值得深思。以下片段只是巴菲特此次演讲的一个节选,在长达一个半钟头的演讲中,他的重点还是与观众的提问环节上,而真正的演讲内容也仅仅是下面的一小部分。
Warren Buffett Lecture at the University of Florida School of Business
October 15, 1998
I would like to talk for just one minute to the students about your future when you leave here. Because you will learn a tremendous amount about investments, you all have the ability to do well; you all have the IQ to do well. You all have the energy and initiative to do well or you wouldn’t be here. Most of you will succeed in meeting your aspirations. But in determining whether you succeed there is more to it than intellect and energy. I would like to talk just a second about that. In fact, there was a guy, Pete Kiewit in Omaha, who used to say, he looked for three things in hiring people: integrity, intelligence and energy. And he said if the person did not have the first two, the later two would kill him, because if they don’t have integrity, you want them dumb and lazy.
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