懂英文的人应该认真看完下面的实录,给我印象深刻的是“投资在自己的能力方面的回报至少十倍以上,因为这是大家政府课不了税而别人也拿不走的”。不单单是投资在自己,投资在别人身上的回报将会同样多或者更多。多花点时间听课和看有用的书吧,给别人的成长提供尽可能多的帮助吧,特别当你站得更高,看得更远的时候。
其它要点在上一篇博文中已经提及。
本文来自CNBC:
CNBC TRANSCRIPT: Warren Buffett's 'Secret
Millionaire's Club' Live Interview on Squawk Box
Published: Friday, 24 Jul 2009 | 12:28 PM ET
Warren Buffett appeared live on CNBC's Squawk Box
this morning to promote a new online animated
series called the Secret Millionaire's Club
in which he teaches kids about finance and
investing.
Buffett told us that stocks are still a better
investment than cash investments, like Treasuries, even though
the Dow has recently rallied to its highs of the year over
9000.
This is a transcript of the CNBC
interview that got underway after Squawk showed a clip from the
animated show in which Buffett talks to kids about the potential
positives and negatives of investing in a fictional Ohama candy
company.
BECKY
QUICK: Warren, thanks for joining us
this morning. We appreciate it.
BUFFETT:
It's my pleasure.
BECKY:
You know --
BUFFETT:
Have some candy. (Laughs.)
BECKY:
Have some candy. That's something we hear from
you often. That's something we hear in the
webisode, too. But how did you get involved in
these webisodes?
BUFFETT:
Well, I've got a friend, Andy Heyward that started producing
cartoons for the Berkshire annual meeting ten years
ago. He did it just out of the goodness of his
heart and did a terrific job. We've become good
friends and then a few years ago he did something called
Liberty's Kids that was a cartoon, animated arrangement,
that retaught history from around the time of the Revolutionary
War. And I was really impressed
with the product. It was - I found myself
enjoying the episodes myself and an eight-year-old could enjoy
them. So he knows how to tell a
story. And he loves to do something beyond tell a
story and amuse. He really wants kids to come
away smarter or with better
habits. So I love working with
Andy.
BECKY:
What's your hope that kids will take away from these episodes?
BUFFETT:
Well, one way or another you develop financial habits when you're
very young. And the habits you
develop live with you for the rest of your life.
So if we can get through to some young people that it's better to
be a little bit ahead of the game than behind the game, watch out
for credit cards. The most important message is
that the best investment you can make is in
yourself. Teaching them if
something's too good to be true, it probably is, and so
on. If they learn those things the easy way
through these stories early on, it may save them learning it the
hard way later on.
BECKY:
The webisode we just watched was something to save the Omaha Candy
Company. What other sorts of
episodes can we expect to see?
Have you done them yet?
BUFFETT:
No, we haven't done them yet. Andy may be well
along but I haven't done any of the work myself.
Andy is the guy who delivers the story lines but what we're really
trying to do is get through, at least to some of that young
audience, some messages that will help them later in life when they
start facing choices as to whether they run up a big credit card
bill. Or like I said, the most important message
you can deliver to a young person is that anything you invest in
yourself, you get back ten-fold. And nobody can
tax it away, they can't steal it from you. So
we'll be trying to deliver those messages. You
have to do it with a good story. They're not
going to watch it to get a lecture. They're going
to watch it to get entertained, and in that entertainment we hope
there can be a good message.
JOE
KERNEN: Warren, I've always been told that there's
huge money in voiceover work. (Buffett
laughs.) And I'm just wondering, just wondering
is that what drew you to this? They don't have to
show you, you see all these Hollywood types are in there, you see
them in the room, they've got the big microphone with the muffler
--
CARL
QUINTANILLA: Improvising.
JOE:
Improvising. Was that it? Big
money in voiceover work that attracted you here?
BUFFETT:
Joe, you'll have to talk to my agent.
(Laughs.) No, I'll tell you, obviously, I'm not
getting paid for this. There was a time when the
market was, you know, hitting 66-hundred or so, that I thought
maybe I'd renegotiate, but things have come back enough so that I'm
doing this for nothing.
(Laughs.) I'm open to ideas, though, Joe.
JOE: I was wondering, what
is now a prescient piece in the Journal about
buying
American. I was
wondering --
BECKY:
Times. New York Times.
JOE: Was
it in the New York Times?
OK. I was wondering where the averages were at
that point, because I think you're, now it looks
prescient. For a while it
looked, but you said long-term, you didn't say this week or next
month or whatever, but it's hard to short America long-term.
BUFFETT:
Yeah. It was not designed to be a one-week or
one-month market forecast. But it was designed to
tell people who were keeping their money in short-term investments
where they thought cash was king, and all that sort of thing, that
I really thought that if they were going to be investing over the
longer term, equities were going to do way better than cash
investments. And if you held cash investments
since that article, you've received virtually
nothing. And if you've held the index, you've
done modestly better plus you've gotten a better
yield. But it wasn't - whether the market is up
or down now does not make much difference. But I
would have been very surprised if five years from when I wrote that
article that stocks hadn't vastly outperformed cash
investments.
JOE:
Well, it happened pretty fast. I
think it was only about a month ago, was it during Berkshire's
release? I don't remember what it was, but you
said this still is awful. And across the board
none of your businesses were, seemed to be improving at
all. Now the market's improved a
lot. Is it as bad as it was a month ago or are
you seeing, I can't call them crocuses or green shoots, but has
anything gotten any better in the past couple of weeks?
BUFFETT:
No, business is flat. But I said in that article,
I said if you wait until you see robins, spring will be
over. You can't wait for business to turn up and
be very clear about the fact it's turned up.
You'll probably only figure it out three or four months later
anway. But the market is very, very likely to
turn up before business. But I don't try and time
stocks. I try to price stocks and stocks were a
decent value when I wrote that article. They got
to be an indecent value some months later. But
it's a mistake - in fact, maybe we'll work it into an episode of
the Secret Millionaire's Club, that people who think they
can pick the market day-by-day are probably making a mistake.
JOE: If
you get laryngitis, Carl is available to do some voiceover work for
you. (Buffett laughs.) I don't
know if anyone can really -
CARL: I'm
going to try to teach kids how to write algorithms and
CDOs. How about that?
JOE:
That's an idea. But in Mr. Buffett's voice.
BUFFETT:
We'll save you for a later session then, Carl.
BECKY:
Hey, Warren, you said that markets got to an indecent
level. I guess you were talking about back below
7000, but when you look at the Dow above 9000 now do you think
that's a decent level? Or is it less indecent, at
least?
BUFFETT:
I would much rather own equities at 9000 on the Dow than have a
long investment in government bonds or a continuously rolling
investment in short-term money. Now, again, I
don't know where it's going to go next week or next month.
JOE: Good
answer.
BECKY:
But you still think equities is the place to be?
BUFFETT:
I would, you know, I own 'em myself.
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