有為書的內文拍照, 卻沒為封面拍照.
2011年11月24日 星期四
Life is What You Make it
Warren Buffett 的兒子的書.
有一個非凡的父親, 身為兒子完全明白父親運用財富的心意. 他也安份的做一個作曲家.
不過, 他作歌的天份比著書好. 書內很多內容是他如何作歌的經過, 似沒有受過很多挫折. 不過, 有些地方說父母親如何教養他, 也看得出他是優秀父母.
Core value: Trust, education and book learning
有一個非凡的父親, 身為兒子完全明白父親運用財富的心意. 他也安份的做一個作曲家.
不過, 他作歌的天份比著書好. 書內很多內容是他如何作歌的經過, 似沒有受過很多挫折. 不過, 有些地方說父母親如何教養他, 也看得出他是優秀父母.
Core value: Trust, education and book learning
父母親的價值觀.
No one asks to be born. No one gets to
choose his parents or to have a say in the circumstances of her birth.
Of all the ways in which affluent parents
make things too easy for their sons and daughters, perhaps the most widespread
is inviting them into the family business, or steering them into a profession in
which a forebear his already succeeded.
For my own parents, the priority was clear.
Their hope for my siblings and me was that each of us would find a passion and
pursue it with all our diligence and energy - that we should claim our own
lives, put our own stamp on everything we did.
If your calling is to be a chef, being
average in the kitchen clearly isn't good enough. No committed teacher wants to
be average in the classroom. No author wants to be average on the
page.
The mistakes we have made, and the course
corrections that resulted from those blunders, are an essential part of our
evolution.
Life may not be fair, but it often turns out
to be surprisingly symmetrical. A wish – can sometimes prove to be a curse, the
thwarting of a wish can sometimes end up being a hidden
blessing.
Money should be seen as a spin-off of
success, a side effect, and not the measure of success itself.
"You know, Pete, you and I really do the
same thing. Music is your canvas. Berkshire's my canvas and I get to paint a
little every day.' That was all he said - and it was plenty.
巴菲特這番說話, 影響到兒子對音樂事業的追求.
My father worked extremely hard because he
loved what he did, because it challenged and excited him. Money cam eventually,
but the passion and the curiosity were there from the start. Money followed; it
never led.
說巴菲特把投資是當作工作, 找尋當中的滿足感, 賺到金錢反而是次要. 所以, 一直都很節儉.
說巴菲特把投資是當作工作, 找尋當中的滿足感, 賺到金錢反而是次要. 所以, 一直都很節儉.
I was really proud of him. It was the only
thing I could think of to say.
當巴菲特說要把錢作慈善用途,
作者有這個表述.
2011年11月12日 星期六
2011年11月8日 星期二
2011年11月6日 星期日
Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living
寫得最好, 原來是書名.
在我看的一堆哲理書中, 它是平庸之作. 說人生哲理, 我覺得很多宗教哲學著述都比它更有啟發性.
但, 作者選的一些名人雋語也有些不錯.
At twenty, we worry about what others think of us; at forty, we don't care about what they think of us; at sixty, we discover that they haven't been thinking about us at all. - Bob Hope 人說, 老了會變得越來越孤獨, 可能是因為, 年青人有年青人的世界, 老人也較愛靜.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller 大自然適者生存是定律, 人卻怕變又要安定.
We must be let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell 說易行難呢.
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