佳句書摘 - The Snowball (7)
Posted in Bill Gates, Investment, Quote on Jan 9th, 2009
當年巴菲特怎樣都不想買也不想碰電腦，就連比爾蓋茲打算派全Microsoft最正的女生去教他操作，並保證過程一定會「相當愉快」，巴菲特還是不買單。:D
“Bill started trying to convince me to get a computer. I said, I don’t know what it it’s going to do for me. I don’t care how my stock portfolio is doing every five minutes. And I can do my income taxes in my head. Gates said he would pick out the best-looking gal at Microsoft and send her to teach me how to use the computer. He would make it totally painless and pleasant. I told him, ‘you’ve made me an offer I almost can’t refuse, but I’ll refuse it.’”
- The Snowball, P623
有趣的是，最後打動巴菲特用電腦的動機竟是是玩網路橋牌，不玩還好，一玩還整個上癮，好幾年來都用T-bone這個帳號遊走江湖。到底有多入迷呢？這邊有段充分顯示出巴菲特“focus”人格特質的段落：
“Before long, Buffett was so engrossed in Internet bridge that nothing could disturb him. When a bat got into the house and flapped around the TV room, banging into the walls and entangling itself in the curtains, Astrid shrieked, ‘Warren, there’s a bat in here!’ Sitting across the room in his frayed terry-cloth bathrobe, staring at his bridge hand, he never move his eyes from the screen as he said, ‘It’s not bothering me any.’ Astrid called the pest-control people and they removed the bat, all without disturbing his bridge game.”
- The Snowball, P 635
可別小看“focus”, 這可是世界首富和世界第二首富(當年)認為自己能小有成就的關鍵：
“…at dinner, Bill Gates Sr. posed the question to the table: What factor did people feel was the most important in getting to where they’d gotten in life? And I said, ‘Focus.’ And Bill said the same thing.”
- The Snowball, P 623
我相信一般人都有focus在手邊工作的能力，但終其一生，focus在一種理念、一種志向、一種夢想，並努力去實踐，就不是那麼容易了。
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