21世纪00年代

    2001年2月19日：《价值机器》

    “（伯克希尔）让我想起了迪士尼电影《幻想曲》(Fantasia)中演魔法师学徒的米老鼠。他的问题是水太多了。我们的问题是现金太多了。”

    2001年12月10日：《巴菲特谈股市》

    “由于我的个人口味偏好，我这辈子还会买汉堡包。汉堡包价格下跌时，我们会在家里唱弥撒赞美诗Hallelujah Chorus。汉堡包价格上涨时，我们会暗自抹泪。这和大多数人购买的生活用品都一样——股票除外。股票下跌时你可以用同样的钱买到更多，但人们不再喜欢它们了。”

    2002年11月11日；《一切的神谕》

    “泡沫已经破了，但股价仍然不便宜……”

    2003年3月17日：《避免超级大灾难》

    “衍生品是金融界的大规模杀伤性武器，虽然目前隐而未发，但一旦爆发，就有可能要命。”

    2005年3月11日：《我得到过的最好建议》

    “1950年底，我有9,800美元，到1956年我有150,000美元。我以为有这些钱，我可以活得像个国王。”

    2006年7月10日：《为何巴菲特捐出财产》

    “我清楚我想做什么，现在开始做起来合情合理。”

    2008年4月28日：《巴菲特怎么看》

    “似乎每个人都在说（这次经济衰退）将短暂而浅层，但看起来情况正好相反。你知道，去杠杆化从本质上需要很多时间，同时还要承受很多痛苦。”

    2008年6月23日：《巴菲特的豪赌》

    “有很多聪明人在管理对冲基金。但很大程度上，他们的努力都是无功无过，他们的智商值不上他们向投资者收的那些管理费。平均而言，投资者在较长一段时间里如果只投资一只低成本的指数基金，回报率可能还会高于投资几只基金的基金。”

    2010年7月6日：《我的慈善承诺》

    “我的财富来源于很因素的巧合：我生活在美国，有一些幸运的基因和复利…（生为）白人男性，也使我免遭多半美国人面临的巨大障碍…命运多舛，变化无常。”

    本文改编自《跳着踢踏舞去上班：听沃伦•巴菲特纵论天下，1966–2012》，由卡罗尔•J•卢米斯搜集整理和扩展，Portfolio/Penguin出版，2012年11月21日发售。 © 2012 Time Inc.

    译者：早稻米

2000s

    Feb. 19, 2001: The value machine

    "[Berkshire] reminds me of Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice in Fantasia. His problem was floods of water. Ours is cash."

    Dec. 10, 2001: Warren Buffett on the stock market

    "To refer to a personal taste of mine, I'm going to buy hamburgers the rest of my life. When hamburgers go down in price, we sing the 'Hallelujah Chorus' in the Buffett household. When hamburgers go up in price, we weep. For most people, it's the same with everything in life they will be buying -- except stocks. When stocks go down and you can get more for your money, people don't like them anymore."

    Nov. 11, 2002: The oracle of everything

    "The bubble has popped, but stocks are still not cheap …"

    March 17, 2003: Avoiding a mega-catastrophe

    "Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal."

    March 11, 2005: The best advice I ever got

    "I had $9,800 at the end of 1950 and by 1956, I had $150,000. I figured with that I could live like a king."

    July 10, 2006: Warren Buffett gives it away

    "I know what I want to do, and it makes sense to get started."

    April 28, 2008: What Warren thinks

    "It seems everybody says [the recession] will be short and shallow, but it looks like it's just the opposite. You know, deleveraging by its nature takes a lot of time, a lot of pain."

    June 23, 2008: Buffett's big bet

    "A number of smart people are involved in running hedge funds. But to a great extent, their efforts are self-neutralizing, and their IQ will not overcome the costs they impose on investors. Investors, on average and over time, will do better with a low-cost index fund than with a group of funds of funds."

    July 6, 2010: My philanthropic pledge

    "My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest … My being [born] male and white also removed huge obstacles that a majority of Americans then faced … Fate's distribution of long straws is wildly capricious."

    Adapted from Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966–2012, collected and expanded by Carol J. Loomis, published by Portfolio/Penguin, on sale Nov. 21, 2012. © 2012 Time Inc.