伯克希爾·哈撒韋的明星投資經(jīng)理聽從巴菲特的建議，每天閱讀500頁
Todd Combs, an investment lieutenant at Berkshire Hathaway, got great advice the first time he encountered his current boss, Warren Buffett, in 2000, the year he started his MBA at Columbia Business School. The Oracle of Omaha was speaking to Combs and 165 other students during an investing class.
2000年，奧馬哈的投資圣哲沃倫·巴菲特在哥倫比亞大學(xué)商學(xué)院的一個投資班里向托德·康布斯（Todd Combs）和其它165名學(xué)生發(fā)表演說。這是康布斯第一次從巴菲特那里得到建議。當(dāng)時，康布斯剛剛開始在哥倫比亞大學(xué)商學(xué)院攻讀MBA，后來他成了伯克希爾·哈撒韋的投資副官，而巴菲特成了他的老板。
In response to a question about how to prepare for an investing career, Buffett told the students, “Read 500 pages like this every day,” while reaching toward a stack of manuals and papers. “That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.”
在回答一個關(guān)于如何為投資生涯做好準(zhǔn)備時，巴菲特對學(xué)生們說：“每天閱讀500頁這樣的文稿?！彼呎f邊向一堆手稿和文件走過去?！斑@就是知識的作用。它像復(fù)利一樣不斷地增長。你們?nèi)巳硕伎梢宰龅剑腋铱隙銈儺?dāng)中不會有很多人會那樣做?！?/span>
Combs, now 47 and a protege of the Berkshire Hathaway CEO, took the advice to heart. As he began his investing career, he read even more, sometimes hitting up to 1,000 pages a day.
現(xiàn)年47歲（2018年）的康布斯是伯克希爾·哈撒韋首席執(zhí)行官巴菲特的門生。他把巴菲特當(dāng)時的建議銘記于心。當(dāng)他開始他的投資生涯時，他閱讀更多，有時一天閱讀量達(dá)到1000頁。
“Combs’s approach was a race against the clock to consume information, says one person familiar with his strategy during that period,” Bloomberg reports. “If he wasn’t in a meeting with his analysts or taking a break to exercise, he was reading, three people say.”
彭博社報道：“一位對康布斯當(dāng)時的戰(zhàn)略比較熟悉的人說，康布斯的方法是與時間賽跑一樣吸收信息。有三人說，如果他不是在與分析師們開會或休息鍛煉的話，他一定是在閱讀?！?/span>
Reading voraciously appears to have helped him get ahead.
如饑似渴地貪婪閱讀似乎幫助他獲得成功。
Combs, who started as a financial-services analyst after graduating from Columbia, began running his own hedge fund, Castle Point Capital Management, in 2005. He joined Berkshire Hathaway in early 2011 as an investment manager and he “is already in line to manage a huge swath of Berkshire’s investments when Buffett, 87, leaves the scene,” Bloomberg reports. Some shareholders even “speculate that he could one day become CEO as well.”
康布斯在從哥倫比亞大學(xué)畢業(yè)后，從金融服務(wù)分析師開始職業(yè)生涯，2005年開始經(jīng)營他自己的對沖基金Castle Point資本管理公司。2011年初，他加入伯克希爾·哈撒韋，成為公司的投資經(jīng)理。彭博報道：“當(dāng)87歲的巴菲特退出伯克希爾·哈撒韋時，康布斯有資格管理公司的巨額投資。”一些股東甚至“預(yù)測他可能在某一天成為伯克希爾·哈撒韋的CEO?！?/span>
The investment manager, who recently helped join together Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon in an effort to change American health care, still finds time to read. “I read about 12 hours a day,” he told the Florida State alumni magazine last year. “Our offices are like a library. So I read annual reports, conference call transcripts, trade magazines, etc.”
康布斯最近加入巴菲特、杰夫·貝索斯以及杰米·戴蒙的行業(yè)，一起努力改變美國的醫(yī)療保健，但他仍尋找時間去閱讀。“我每天大約閱讀12小時。”他在去年（2017）接受佛羅里達(dá)州校友會雜志采訪時說：“我們的辦公室像一個圖書館。因此，我在那里閱讀年度報告、電話會議文稿、貿(mào)易雜志等等。”
At this point, he’s logging more reading hours than his boss, who spends five or six hours a day poring over books and newspapers.
在這個層面上，康布斯花在閱讀的時間比他的老板還多。巴菲特每天花在閱讀書籍和報紙的時間是五到六個小時。
“I read and think,” Buffett once said. “So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
“我邊閱讀邊思考。”巴菲特曾經(jīng)說：“因此，比起大多數(shù)商界人物，我的閱讀和思考更多，作出的沖動決定就更少。我這么做是因為我喜歡這樣的生活方式。”
