2000 •  Buffett named the top money manager of the 20th century by the Carson Group. •  Berkshire Hathaway acquires Acme Building Brands, Shaw Industries, Benjamin Moore, and Johns Manville. 2004 •  Buffett’s wife, Susan, dies of a stroke. 2006 •  Buffett announces his plan to give more than 80 percent of his fortune to five foundations, the largest part going to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. •  Buffett marries Astrid Menks. 2000 ·巴菲特被卡森集团评为20世纪最伟大的基金经理。 ·伯克希尔·哈撒韦收购了Acme Building Brands、Shaw Industries、Benjamin Moore和Johns Manville。 2004 ·巴菲特的妻子苏珊死于中风。 2006 ·巴菲特宣布，他计划将自己80%以上的财产捐给五个基金会，其中最大的一部分捐给比尔和梅林达·盖茨基金会。 ·巴菲特与阿斯特丽德·门克斯结婚。

1952 •  Buffett and Susan Thompson marry and have their first child, Susie. 1954 •  Graham offers Buffett a job in his partnership, which he joins for a salary of $12,000 per year. The family moves to White Plains, New York, and Buffett becomes the partnership’s star performer. 1956 •  Graham retires and offers to make Buffett a partner in his business. Buffett, tired of New York and not interested in being a junior partner, turns him down. •  The family returns to Omaha, and Buffett decides to retire and live off the interest of his money. •  To earn enough money to retire, Buffett creates Buffett Associates, an investment partnership, with several friends. He then creates two more partnerships. 1952 ·巴菲特和苏珊·汤普森结婚，并有了他们的第一个孩子苏西。 1954 ·格雷厄姆在他的公司，给巴菲特提供了一份工作，年薪1.2万美元。他们一家搬到了纽约的White Plains，巴菲特成了公司之星。 1956 ·格雷厄姆退休了，并提出让巴菲特成为他公司的合伙人。巴菲特厌倦了纽约，对做初级合伙人也不感兴趣，拒绝了他。 ·一家人回到奥马哈，巴菲特决定退休，靠他的钱过活。 ·为了赚到足够的钱退休，巴菲特和几个朋友成立了投资合伙公司巴菲特联合公司(Buffett Associates)。然后，他又创建了另外两个合伙公司。

Milestones 1930 •  August 30: Warren Edward Buffett is born in Nebraska to Howard and Leila Buffett. 1941 •  Buffett, 11, buys his first shares of stock with his sister Doris. After the shares initially lose value, WB sells them at a modest profit. Shortly after he sells them, the price per share goes up by more than 500 percent. 里程碑 1930 ·8月30日：沃伦·爱德华·巴菲特在内布拉斯加州出生，父母是霍华德·巴菲特和莱拉·巴菲特。 1941 ·11岁的巴菲特和妹妹多丽丝一起买了他的第一支股票。在股票最初贬值后，WB以合适的利润出售股票。在他卖出这些股票后不久，每股价格就上涨了500%以上。

LET’S JUST ASSUME that it was 24 hours before you were born and a genie came to you and he said, “Herb, you look very promising and I’ve got a big problem. I’ve got to design the world in which you’re going to live and … I’ve decided … it’s too tough, you design it.” … You say, “I can design anything? … There must be a catch.” He says, “Well, there is a catch. You don’t know whether you’re going to be born black or white, rich or poor, male or female, infirm or able-bodied.…” You’re going to participate in what I call the ovarian lottery. You’re going to get one ball out of there and that is the most important thing that’s ever going to happen to you in your life. That is going to control whether you’re born here or in Afghanistan, or whether you’re born with an IQ of 130 or an IQ of 70…. I think that’s a good way to look at social questions, because not knowing what ball you’re going to get, you’re going to want to design a system that includes lots of goods and services, because you’re going to want people—on balance—to live well. And you’re going to want it to produce more and more so your kids are going to live well and your grandchildren are going to live better than your kids, but you’re also going to want a system that … does not leave behind a person who accidentally got the wrong ball.—University of Florida, October 15, 1998#巴菲特语录# 咱们想象一下在你出生前24小时，一个精灵来到你身边，他说，“Herb，你看起来很不错，我有个大问题。我要设计你想要生活的世界，这个有点难度，你可以来设计。你说:“我什么都能设计?”……这里一定有圈套。这里有个陷阱。你不知道你生下来是黑人还是白人，是富人还是穷人，是男性还是女性，是体弱多病还是身体健全....” 你要参加我谓的卵巢抽奖。你要从那里得到一个球，这是你一生中发生的最重要的事情。将决定你是出生在这里还是阿富汗，或者你出生时智商是130还是70.... 我认为这是一个看待社会问题的好方法，因为不知道你会得到什么球，你会想要设计一个包括许多商品和服务的系统，因为你会希望人们生活得更好。你会希望社会会产生越来越多的东西，这样你的孩子们就会生活得更好，你的孙子们就会比你的孩子们生活得更好，但你也会希望系统不会抛弃不小心拿错球的人。