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You want people, if you want to emulate somebody, you better pick very carefully who you want to emulate.
如果你想要模仿某人，你最好仔细选择你想要模仿的人。
And obviously, you can't pick your parents, they're going to have an enormous influence on you, but you don't get a choice on that.
很明显，你没有选择你的父母，他们会对你产生巨大的影响，但你不是你的选择。
But you get choices as you go down the line and who you admire, who you want to copy.
但随着时间的推移，你会有很多选择，你钦佩谁，你想模仿谁。
And the most important for most people in terms of that decision is their spouse.
对于大多数人来说，最重要的决定是他们的配偶。
It's also important in terms of a partner in business, with a partner in life is the most important one.
在商业伙伴方面也很重要，生活中的伙伴是最重要的。
You want to pick a spouse that's a little better than you are.
你想找一个比你好一点的配偶。
Biggest mistakes people make when investing?
人们在投资时犯的最大错误是什么？
Well, they try, they just don't realize that all you have to do is just buy across a cross-section of America and they never listen to people like me or read the papers or do anything subsequently.
他们只是没有意识到，你所要做的只是在美国的各个地区买东西，他们从来不会听我这样的人的话，也不会读报纸，也不会做任何事情。
They think that because you can trade, you should trade.
但他们认为，因为你可以交易，你就应该交易。
You buy a farm, you buy an apartment house, you can't resell it tomorrow, you know, the cost of moving around.
你买了一个农场，你买了一栋公寓房子，你不能明天再卖了，还有搬家的成本。
Now you get something handed to you, liquidity, which is instant in sell and the cost of doing it are pennies, you know, compared to other kinds of investment activity.
现在你得到了一些东西，流动性，这是即时出售的，而且与其他投资活动相比，它的成本很低。
So, because they can so easily move around, they do move around.
因为它们可以很容易地移动，它们确实可以移动。
And moving around is not smarter than investing.
而且，可移动并不证明值得投资。
You have a pretty cool morning routine regarding what you have for breakfast and how prosperous you feel. What is that?
你的早餐惯例很酷啊，你早上吃什么，以及你感觉自己有多富裕。说说吧。
Well, I now actually send somebody over to McDonald's usually to get me something, since the publicity I got from earlier describing my habits at McDonald's.
事实上，我现在通常会派人去麦当劳给我买东西，因为我之前在麦当劳的习惯引起了公众的注意。
I know somebody had them, have somebody go in the office, but that was more for entertainment value.
我知道有人可能会带去办公室，但这更多的是为了娱乐价值。
I actually eat, I eat exactly what I like to eat.
我是真的吃东西，我吃我喜欢吃的东西。
If I liked it on my sixth birthday and my sixth birthday party when we had hot dogs and hamburgers and Coke and ice cream with chocolate, I still like it.
在我的六岁生日派对上，当我们吃热狗、汉堡、可乐和巧克力冰淇淋的时候，我就喜欢，现在我仍然喜欢它。
And I don't care about anything subsequently.
后来，我什么都不在乎了。
I discovered it all by the time I was six.
在我六岁的时候，我发现了这一切。
If somebody offered me a deal, when I was 20 and said, you're going to live one year longer.
如果有人跟我做一个交易，当我20岁的时候，他说，你可以多活一年。
You know, instead of living to 88, you'll have 89 or whatever it may be, if you eat nothing but broccoli and Brussels sprouts and onions and all these things, I would have said, I'll take the last year off.
不活到88岁，吃花椰菜、球芽甘蓝和洋葱你可以活89岁，或者别的什么，我可能会说，我宁愿不要最后这一年。
It probably won't be that good anyway, you know.
反正可能也不会那么好。
So, I eat what I like to eat.
因此，我喜欢吃什么就吃什么。
I am not adventuring something in that area.
我并不是在那个领域冒险。
I like how you lumped in onions with broccoli and Brussels sprouts.
我喜欢你把洋葱和花椰菜、球芽甘蓝混在一起的样子。
I just don't happen to like onions.
我只是碰巧不喜欢洋葱。
But I don't put them in the same category.
但我不会把它们归为同一类。
Okay. You and George H.W. Bush, I think.
好的。我想就像你和老布什。
