与巴菲特午餐的回报 Plenty to chew over at Buffett lunch

李星玥

摘要: The folks who successfully bid $2.3m for lunch with Warren Buffett can expect a convivial event filled with jokes, investment wisdom and life advice, according to those who have won in previous years ..The folks who successfully bid $2.3m for lunch with Warren Buffett can expect a convivial event filled with jokes, investment wisdom and life advice, according to those who have won in previous years — but they had better keep an eye on their soft drinks.成功投标230万美元与沃伦?巴菲特(Warren Buffett)共进午餐的人们，可以期待一段欢乐的时光，充满了笑料、投资智慧和人生建议，但他们最好盯紧自己的软饮料——这是往年的中标者介绍的“经验”。
This year’s annual auction was won by a Chinese online games development company called Dalian Zeus Entertainment, which can take up to eight people to meet the legendary investor.
中国网游开发公司大连天神娱乐(Dalian Zeus Entertainment)赢得今年的年度拍卖，中标者可以带至多8人会晤巴菲特这位具有传奇色彩的投资者。
Since Mr Buffett began the tradition in 2000, his lunches have raised $20m for Glide, a San Francisco charity supporting the city’s poor and homeless.
自巴菲特在2000年开启这一传统以来，这些年来他的“拍卖”午餐已为Glide（一家旧金山慈善机构，支持该市的穷人和无家可归者）筹集了2000万美元。
Monsoon Pabrai’s most vivid memory from her lunch was that Mr Buffett pinched her Cherry Coke, thinking it was his. She was 12 at the time. Her hedge fund manager father, Mohnish Pabrai, took his two daughters along after he and a friend won with their $650,100 bid in 2007.
梦松?帕波莱(Monsoon Pabrai)对那顿午餐的最生动记忆是，巴菲特拿起她的樱桃可乐(Cherry Coke)喝了起来，以为那是他自己的。那年她才12岁。当时，身为对冲基金经理的父亲莫尼什?帕波莱(Mohnish Pabrai)和一个朋友在2007年以65.01万美元中标后，带上自己的两个女儿与巴菲特共进午餐。
Now, partly inspired by that lunch, Ms Pabrai is doing an internship at the investment office at University of California, Los Angeles, and hoping to go into the world of endowments, but she also remembers Mr Buffett’s advice outside the sphere of investments.
部分是在那顿午餐的激励下，如今帕波莱女士正在美国加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)的投资办公室实习，并希望进入捐赠基金的世界，但她也记得巴菲特在投资范畴以外的建议
“He said the greatest decision we would make is who to marry,” she recalls. “Now every time my sister and I go on dates, that echoes in our heads.”
“他说，我们一生中将要做出的最大决定是与谁结婚。”她回忆道，“现在，每当我和姐姐出去跟别人约会，那条建议就会在我们的脑海里产生回音。”
Guy Spier, who bid with Mr Pabrai, recalls “the way the air vibrates” around Mr Buffett. Mr Spier has since written a book on what he has learnt from Mr Buffett, both personally and through following his value investment principles, and he puts some of his professional success down to the lunch.
当年与帕波莱联合投标的盖伊?施皮尔(Guy Spier)对巴菲特周围的气场记忆犹新。施皮尔后来写了一本书，介绍他从巴菲特那里学到的东西——无论是个人层面的哲理，还是因遵循巴菲特价值投资原则而得到的收获。他将自己的一部分职业成功归功于那顿午餐。