巴菲特87歲了，還有24個鮮為人知的秘密

Billionaire and legendary investor Warren Buffett turns 87 years old on August 30. With a net worth of nearly $77 billion, "The Oracle of Omaha" is currently the fourth-richest person in the world — but he doesn't act like it.

His modest home in Nebraska is worth just .001% of his total wealth and he never spends more than $3.17 on his daily McDonald's breakfast.

To those who knew him from the beginning, Buffett's success comes as no surprise: He was picking out stocks at 11 years old and had amassed the equivalent of $53,000 in today's dollars by the time he was 16.

But Buffett isn't just a master at making money — he's good at giving it away, too. Although he didn't start donating until later in life at the insistence of his first wife, Buffett is now regarded as one of the most generous philanthropists in the world, giving more than $27 billion to causesin the last decade.

Inspired by a Quora thread asking "What are some mind-blowing facts about Warren Buffett," we rounded up 24 astonishing facts about the legendary investor and his massive fortune.

While his elementary school classmates were dreaming about the major leagues and Hollywood, 10-year old Buffett was having lunch with a member of the New York Stock Exchange and setting life goals.

Buffett's legendary career all began with an epiphany at age 10 when he was on a trip to New York City with his dad.

Dining with a member of the NYSE planted the idea in young Buffett's head to organize his life around money.

He bought his first stock at age 11.

He purchased multiple shares of Cities Service Preferred for $38 apiece.

When Buffett was a teen, he was already raking in about $175 a month — more than his teachers (and most adults).

He pulled this off by dutifully delivering the Washington Post.

He had amassed the equivalent of $53,000 by the time he was just 16.

Paper delivery was just one of many small businesses teenage Buffett orchestrated: He sold used golf balls and stamps, buffed cars, set up a pinball machine business, and turned a horse track into a lucrative playground.

He was rejected from Harvard Business School.

Buffett, confident he nailed his admissions interview, had already told a friend, "Join me at Harvard."

"I looked about 16 and emotionally was about nine," he recalled of the in-person interview. Forced to look elsewhere, he settled on Columbia University, which only required a written application and no interview.

His idol refused to hire him the first time he applied.

Buffett originally wanted to work with his idol, and author of "The Intelligent Investor," Benjamin Graham, but Graham rejected him because he wasn't Jewish (Graham was saving a spot at his firm for someone Jewish, since at the time Jewish people had a tougher time landing work on Wall Street).

Buffett wouldn't take no for an answer, and continued pitching Graham ideas until he eventually hired him.

Buffett spent $100 to take a Dale Carnegie course on public speaking.

He was 21 and terrified of public speaking. It ended up being a worthy investment, as the course helped him propose to his wife.

His house is a humble five-bedroom in Omaha, Nebraska, that he bought in 1956 for $31,500.

If you want to be Buffett's neighbor, the house across the street will cost you about $2.15 million.

Buffett doesn't keep a computer on his desk, and he chooses to use a flip phone rather than a smartphone.

There is, however, a World Book Encyclopedia set on his shelf.

In fact, he's only sent one email in his life, to Jeff Raikes of Microsoft.

His distance from technology leaves him time for bridge, which he plays about 12 hours a week.

Oftentimes, his bridge partner is Bill Gates.

He spends 80% of his day reading.

When he's not playing bridge, he's reading. "I just sit in my office and read all day," he says.

He drinks an alarming amount of Coca-Cola each day.

The business magnate is a notoriously unhealthy eater: "If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola. I drink at least five 12-ounce servings. I do it everyday."

He also likes to double-fist salt shakers, and don't put it past him to enjoy a bowl of ice cream for breakfast.

99% of Buffett's wealth was earned after his 50th birthday.

Among investing legends, Buffett has the longest track record for beating the market.

The longevity of Buffett's outperformance is greater than that of other savvy investors, such as David Einhorn and Walter Schloss.

$1,000 invested in Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway stock in 1964, when Buffett took over the company and shares cost just $19, would be worth about $13 million dollars today.

Buffett's net worth is greater than the GDP of Uruguay.

Uruguay's 2014 GDP was estimated to be $57,471,277,325.

Though Buffett spends frugally, he gives generously. In 2010, he teamed up with Bill and Melinda Gates to form The Giving Pledge, an initiative that asks the world's wealthiest people to dedicate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy.

As of June 2016, more than 154 affluent individuals have signed the pledge, including Michael Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison.

Buffett has also so far donated nearly enough money in his lifetime to build six Apple 'Spaceship' Campuses, which are $5 billion endeavors.

The Apple Campus, one of the last major projects Steve Jobs worked on, is a futuristic-looking company campus that will feature curved glass panels, an underground parking lot, a private auditorium for keynotes and product launches, and a 360-degree view of nature.

Buffett has donated nearly $30 billion — the second-highest amount (following that of Bill Gates).

In 2013, Buffett made on average $37 million per DAY — that's more than what Jennifer Lawrence made the entire year.

According to Forbes, Jennifer Lawrence was the second-highest-paid actress in 2013, and she is estimated to have made $34 million that year.

Warren Buffett made $37 million per day in 2013.

In July 2016, Buffett broke his own giving record when he donated $2.9 billion to various charities, including The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, which is named for his late wife.

The multi-billionaire reportedly earns only $100,000 a year at Berkshire Hathaway — and spends it frugally.

People are so fascinated with the legendary Buffett that they'll spend millions of dollars to eat lunch with him.

Buffett has been auctioning off a "power lunch" since 2000 at his charity event for GLIDE Foundation.

The highest bidder gets to bring up to seven people to dine with the steak-loving business magnate at Smith & Wollensky steakhouse in Manhattan, and the most recent winner paid $3,456,789.

He doesn't think money equals success: 'I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lovable.'

This article originally appeared on BusinessInsider.com

今年8月30日是傳奇投資人沃倫·巴菲特的87歲生日。憑藉770億美元的凈資產，這位「奧馬哈先知」也是全世界第四富有的人，不過他的生活相當儉樸，遠不像很多人想象得那麼土豪。

巴菲特的家位於美國的內布拉斯加州，這套房子的價值只相當於他個人總資產的0.01%，所以說他住得不算很奢華。他的早餐經常在麥當勞解決，最多花3.17美元就搞定了。

對於了解巴菲特發家史的人來說，巴菲特成功絕對不是偶然的。他從11歲就開始選擇股票了，16歲時他已經擁有了相當於今天的53,000美元的資產。

巴菲特不僅是個賺錢的大師，他在捐錢上也不遺餘力。雖然巴菲特的慈善生涯起步很晚，而且是在第一任妻子的堅持下才開始涉足慈善的，但他現在已經成為全世界最慷慨的慈善家。過去十年裡，他捐給慈善事業的善款已經超過了270億美元。

受Quora網站上的一個問題「關於巴菲特，有什麼不為人知的事實」啟發，我們搜集了關於這位傳奇投資人的24個不為人知的秘密。

在他的國小同學還在夢想當體育明星和好萊塢明星時，10歲的巴菲特正在跟紐交所的高管共進午餐，並且確定了自己的人生目標。

巴菲特的傳奇人生，始於10歲時與父親的一趟紐約之旅。

父親帶著他與紐交所的一名高管吃了飯，正是這頓飯在幼小的巴菲特心中種下了以投資為事業的種子。

11歲時購買了第一支股票。

這一年，他以38美元的價格購入了幾股Cities Service Preferred的股票。

十幾歲時每個月已經有了175美元的收入，比他的老師（以及大多數成年人）的收入還多。

這筆錢是靠給《華盛頓郵報》當送報童賺來的。

16歲時已經擁有53,000美元的財富。

青少年時期的巴菲特已經嘗試過許多種小生意，送報紙只是其中之一。他還賣過二手的高爾夫球和郵票，倒騰過二手肌肉車，干過彈珠機生意，還曾經把一個賽馬場改造成一個豪華遊樂場。

曾被哈佛商學院拒之門外。

在招生面試結束后，巴菲特堅信自己一定能被哈佛錄取，於是他得意洋洋地對朋友說：「咱們哈佛見。」

後來回憶起這次面試，巴菲特曾說過：「我當時外表上看起來有16歲，但心理年齡只有9歲。」被哈佛商學院無情拒絕後，他只得就讀了哥倫比亞大學，因為當時哥大隻需要一份書面申請就能上，不需要經過面試。

他的偶像拒絕了他的第一次求職申請

巴菲特最開始想為他的偶像、《聰明投資人》的作者本傑明·格雷漢姆工作。但格雷漢姆卻因為巴菲特不是猶太人而拒絕了他——那個年代猶太人想在華爾街找工作是很不容易的，所以格雷漢姆的公司專門給猶太人留了個位子。

巴菲特不接受偶像的拒絕，而是繼續各種創造機會與偶像交流思想，最後終於打動了格雷漢姆。

巴菲特花100美元報過戴爾·卡耐基的演講課

21歲時的巴菲特還很害怕公開講話。事實證明這100塊錢花得是很值的。至少上完了課，他已經有勇氣公開跟妻子求婚了。

他在奧馬哈的家只有五間卧室，這套房子是他1956年以31,500美元購買的。

如果你想當巴菲特的鄰居，你可以買下他對面的那套房子——現價大約是215萬美元。

巴菲特的辦公桌上沒有電腦，他用的是翻蓋手機而不是智能手機。

他的書架上還放著一部《世界圖書百科全書》。

他一生中只發過一封電子郵件，收件人是微軟的傑夫·雷克斯。

遠離科技產品也有個好處，就是他有很多時間打橋牌，每周能玩12個小時。

他的橋牌夥伴一般是比爾·蓋茨。

巴菲特每天80%的時間在讀書。

不打橋牌的時候，他基本上都在讀書。他曾說過：「我坐在辦公室里，一讀書就是一整天。」

每天喝大量可口可樂。

這位投資大師愛吃垃圾食品是出了名的。「如果我每天攝入2700卡，其中至少有四分之一是喝可樂喝的。我每天至少要喝五罐可樂，天天如此。」

另外他喜歡高鹽高糖的飲食，經常吃一碗冰淇淋當早餐。

巴菲特99%的財富是在50歲生日以後賺到的。

在所有人們公認的投資大師中，巴菲特的勝率是最高的。

他的卓越投資表現保持得極久，超過了歷史上任何一名投資大師——比如大衛·埃因霍恩和沃特·施勞斯等。

如果你在1964年——也就是巴菲特剛收購伯克希爾哈撒韋公司時，花1000美元購買了伯克希爾哈撒韋的股票（當時的股價是19美元），那些股份放在今天將價值1300萬美元。

巴菲特的凈資產比烏拉圭的GDP還多。

2014年烏拉圭的GDP約為57,471,277,325美元。

雖然巴菲特花錢很節省，但他捐錢卻十分大方。2010年，他與比爾蓋茨夫婦發起了「捐贈誓言」活動，號召全球富豪們將大多數財產捐給慈善組織。

截止2016年6月，已有至少154名富豪簽署了「誓言」，包括邁克爾·布隆伯格、馬克·扎克伯格和拉里·埃里森等。

巴菲特一生捐出去的錢，差不多夠修6個蘋果「太空船」總部了（造價約50億美元）。

蘋果的「太空船」總部是喬布斯生前最後的幾個大手筆之一，外觀極具未來主義風格，外牆採用了有弧度的玻璃面板。總部園區還修建了地下停車場和用來做產品發布的大禮堂，還有360度的自然景觀。

巴菲特迄今為止已經捐獻了近300億美元，是全世界對公益事業捐贈第二多的人（僅次於比爾·蓋茨）。

2013年，巴菲特平均每天能賺3700萬美元，比詹妮弗·勞倫斯一整年的收入都多。

據《福布斯》雜誌報道，詹妮弗·勞倫斯是2013年收入第二高的女明星，當年她的總收入約為3400萬美元。而2013年，巴菲特平均每天的收入都達到了3700萬美元。

2016年7月，巴菲特再次打破自己的捐贈記錄，一次性向幾家慈善組織捐贈了29億美元，對象包括比爾與梅琳達蓋茨基金會和蘇珊湯普森巴菲特基金會等——後者是以他已故的妻子蘇珊命名的。

據稱，巴菲特每年會從伯克希爾哈撒韋公司領10萬美元的工資——而且他花得很省。

巴菲特在全球擁有大量擁躉，他們甚至不惜花幾百萬，只求與巴菲特吃頓飯。

為了給GLIDE基金會籌集善款，巴菲特從2000年開始拍賣與自己共進午餐的機會。

出價最高的人可以最多帶7個人，在曼哈頓的Smith & Wollensky牛排屋與這位商業界的傳奇人物吃一頓飯。最近獲此殊榮者花了3456789美元。

巴菲特並不認為金錢能與成功划等號。「我衡量成功的標準是有多少人愛我。被愛的最好的方法，就是做一個可愛的人。」（財富中文網）

譯者：朴成奎