11-Billy Rose used to say that if you have a harem of a hundred girls, you never get to know any of them very well. The trick is to know a lot about what you own, and you don’t own that many things.
羅斯曾說,如果你的後宮有一百位佳麗,你一定無法非常了解其中任何一個。關鍵就在於你應該對所擁有的一切非常了解,而且不要擁有太多東西。
12-If he were coming in with small sums of capital, I’d tell him to do exactly what I did forty-odd years ago, which is to learn about every company in the United States that has publicity traded securities, and that bank of knowledge will do him or her terrific good overtime.
如果一個人入行時只有一點點資金,我會叫他去做我四時多年前做的事,就是去研究每一家上市公司。經過一段時間,這樣的知識會為他帶來極大的好處。
13-If Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan were to whisper to me what his company policy was going to be over the next two years, it wouldn’t change one thing I do.
即使聯邦準備理事會主席葛林斯潘偷偷告訴我,他在未來兩年內的貨幣政策為何,我還是不會改變任何我要做的事。
14-As far as I am concerned, the stock market doesn’t exist. It is there only as a reference to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish.
對我而言,根本就沒有股票市場,他存在的目的只是讓我們看看,是否有人提議要做什麼蠢事。
15-An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it. With every investment decision his card is punched, and he has one fewer available for the rest of his life.
投資人做決定時,應該想成自己手中握有一張只有二十格的人生決定卡。每做一個投資決定,卡片就要剪掉一格,而他這一生所能做的決定也就少了一次。