偷学巴菲特的五种习惯

每当奥马哈先知开坛设讲，众人就赶去朝圣。事实上，每年有数千伯克希尔-哈撒韦公司股东涌向内布拉斯加州小城奥马哈，听巴菲特讲投资。

当今世界能受得起如此顶礼膜拜的商业领袖当然非巴菲特莫属。他几乎每活10年身家就会涨个一两倍，现在已经达到670亿美元。伯克希尔-哈撒韦的股价呢？呵呵，一股191396美元，在美国随便哪个州都够买套房子。

巴菲特，快教教我们成功秘诀吧！

讲述巴菲特如何积累财富的书不计其数（在亚马逊网站上，搜索他的名字出来的结果几乎有20页）。在股票资讯网站The Motley Fool、《华尔街日报》网站和财经科技新闻网站Business Insider上，关于巴菲特的文章可能数以千计。

不过，介绍他工作之余做什么的文章并不多。

也难怪，当下流行的职场文化就是努力拼杀的工作狂们天天熬夜加班，所以对读者来说巴菲特工作的状态要比居家爱好更有价值。不过，巴菲特看待管理、投资和赚大钱这么从容淡定，主要归结于他在工作和生活之间令人羡慕的平衡。

以下是沃伦•巴菲特的五项日常活动，我们可以借鉴：

1. 500页的阅读量

一次，有人问他怎么变得更聪明，股神拿起一叠文件说：“每天都读500页的东西，有这么厚。知识就是这么积累起来的，就像复利。”

巴菲特估计，他每天要花80%的时间阅读，工作时读财报、报刊和报告，在家读报纸和书籍。我们当中有些人一年也读不了这么多。

“和商界大多数人相比，我读的和想的多一些，冲动决定少一些。”有道理，阅读质量越高，得到的信息就越多，就越不容易冲动。

2. 做些运动

巴菲特曾说过，保持年轻状态的秘密就是“像个六岁小孩一样吃东西”，其中包括每天最多喝五罐可乐。他承认：“我的四分之一都是可口可乐。”（他持有价值160亿美元的可口可乐股票，这么说还真没啥错。）85岁的巴菲特还喜欢享用汉堡、牛排、炸薯饼和冰激凌苏打。

2007年，77岁的巴菲特曾透露，医生给了他两个选择，“要么吃得健康些，要么运动”。巴菲特选了运动，“两害相权取其轻”。生活上的这个小小改变一定起了作用。2015年巴菲特战胜了前列腺癌，如今看上去依然快乐而健康。

3. 心存感激，不浪费

追随着偶像查克•菲尼（菲尼秘密捐出了所有财产）的脚步，巴菲特已成世界上最大的慈善家之一。几十位亿万富翁在他的裸捐承诺书上签了字，其中包括承诺将一半的资产净值用于慈善事业的比尔•盖茨。巴菲特的承诺是捐出生前99%的财富。

“如果成为人群中最幸运的1%，你对别人就有义务，应该多想想另外的99%。”

巴菲特还以节俭著称。他至今仍住在1958年花3.15万美元买来的房子里（讽刺的是，现在想住他旁边要花很多钱）。他还喜欢邀请到奥马哈拜访他的投资者去麦当劳吃午餐。

4. 玩需要耐心的游戏

和查克•菲尼一样，巴菲特承认管理自己日益增长的财富就像是玩游戏。这并不奇怪。巴菲特很喜欢游戏，经常为了更好地看清投资规律玩金融类“心理游戏”。

他还喜欢通过打桥牌保持头脑敏锐（和大富翁一样，桥牌是出了名的费时间）。巴菲特实在太喜欢打桥牌了，有时人们会看到他在奥马哈的一条购物街上花七美元跟退休的人打桥牌。

巴菲特表示：“打桥牌是锻炼智力最好的方法。每过10分钟场上形势都不一样……桥牌的精髓就是权衡输赢几率，每时每刻都在计算。”

5. 有一个纯粹为了找乐的爱好

对一周经常工作100多个小时的华尔街分析师来说，自然无暇顾及爱好这种俗物。但巴菲特就有爱好。信不信由你，他的四弦小吉他弹得相当好。他甚至还自己写歌。YouTube上就有他唱可口可乐歌曲以及跟邦•乔维二重奏的视频。（财富中文网）

译者：Charlie

审校：夏林

When the Oracle of Omaha talks, people make pilgrimages. In fact, thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders flock to the tiny town of Omaha, Nebraska each year to hear him talk about investing.

Of course, if any business leader can command that level of devotion, it’s Mr. Buffett. He has practically doubled or tripled his net worth in every decade of his life, and is now worth $67 billion. A single share of his company’s stock? Try $191,396. That’s enough to buy a house in any one of the 50 states.

Teach us your ways, Warren!

There are countless books on how Buffett accumulated his wealth (Amazon has almost 20 pages of results under his name). The number of articles about him on sites like The Motley Fool, The Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider is probably somewhere in the thousands.

But there aren’t that many articles on what he does in his spare time after work.

This isn’t surprising. In our current culture ofcompetitive workaholics who regularly work late hours, Buffett’s office schedule is more valuable to readers than his home hobbies. But his famous Zen attitude towards managing, investing and making billions can be largely attributed to his enviable work-life balance.

Here are five things Warren Buffett does each day that we could all learn from:

1. Read 500 pages.

Once, when asked how to get smarter, the Oracle held up a stack of papers and said, “read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge builds up, like compound interest.”

Buffett estimates that he spends 80 percent of his waking day reading at work (financial statements, journals, reports) and at home (newspapers and books). Some of us don’t read that many pages each year.

“I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business.” Makes sense; the better read you are, the more informed you are, the less impulsive you are.

2. Exercise a little.

Buffett once said that his secret to staying young is to “eat like a six-year-old.” This includes drinking up to five Cokes a day. “I’m one-quarter Coca-Cola,” he admitted. (Considering he owns $16 billion in Coca-Cola stock, that’s not too far from the truth.) Keep in mind that the 85-year-old also likes to eat hamburgers, steaks, hash browns and root beer floats.

In 2007 (at the age of 77), he revealed that his doctor had given him a simple choice: “Either you eat better or you exercise.” Buffett chose exercise, “the lesser of two evils.” The simple life change must have worked. After beating prostate cancer in 2015,he still looks happy and healthy.

3. Be grateful, not wasteful.

Following in the footsteps of his hero, Chuck Feeney(who secretly gave away his entire fortune), Buffett is one of the world’s biggest philanthropists. HisGiving Pledge also boasts dozens of billionaire signees, including Bill Gates, who have committed half their net worth to charitable causes. Buffett has pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune during his lifetime.

“If you’re in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”

He is also famously frugal, so it all works out. Not only does Mr. Buffett live in the same house he bought in 1958 for $31,500 (ironically, it costs significantly more to live next to him). He also likes to treat investors who visit him in Omaha to McDonald’s for lunch.

4. Play a game that requires patience.

Like Chuck Feeney, Buffett has admitted that he manages his ever-growing fortune like he’s playing a game. This isn’t surprising. He enjoys games, and regularly plays financial “mind games” to help him better see patterns in his investments.

He also likes to stay sharp by playing Bridge (which, like Monopoly, takes a notoriously long time to finish). In fact, Buffett likes Bridge so much that he can sometimes be found in an Omaha strip mall, paying $7 to play against retirees.

“It’s got to be the best intellectual exercise out there,” he claims. “You’re seeing new situations every 10 minutes…Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You’re doing calculations all the time.”

5. Have a hobby that’s just for fun.

For Wall Street analysts who often work 100+ hours a week, something as mundane as a “hobby” is inevitably put on the back burner. But Warren likes his hobbies. If you can believe it, he’s a pretty good ukulele player and even writes his own songs. There are YouTube videos of him singing about Coca Cola and playing duets with Bon Jovi.