And the king readily agreed to it,and by the time he figured out what two to the 64th amounted to,
那國王真的同意了 當他算出第64個格子里總共多少時
he was giving away the entire kingdom.
他就已經把整個王國的糧食給出去了
So it's a pretty simple concept, but over time,it accomplishes extraordinary things.
所以這是一個很簡單道理 在結束時就會有非凡的結果
Berkshire is an amazing company.
伯克希爾是一個神奇的公司
Fourth largest company in the "Fortune" 500.
財富雜志500強中最大的公司
He is the only person who has ever, from scratch,built a company that is in the top 10 of the Fortune 500.
他是500強前十名中唯一一個白手起家的人
Berkshire Hathaway. Fine, thank you.
伯克希爾哈撒韋 好 謝謝
Well, Berkshire is a holding company of sorts.
伯克希爾是一家多元化的控股公司
It owns a large number of separate businesses
它擁有大量不同的業務
that operate independently of each other and, to a great extent, from the parent company, Berkshire Hathaway.
很大程度上是與它的母公司 伯克希爾哈撒韋分開運營
All right, well, we're going to get more from you in a second.
我們能在一秒內比你獲得更多
So we have maybe 70, maybe 80 businesses,
我們可能有七八十項業務
and we ask them to behave in a way that doesn't hurt our reputation at Berkshire Hathaway, but they run their own lives.
我們讓它們以一種不傷害我們名譽的方式 在伯克希爾哈撒韋中運營 但是它們是獨立的
Other people do most of the decorating in the office, so various things come in.
其他人在辦公室內進行安排 因此有很多不同的事物
Originally, when I moved in in 1962.you can see this
如果你1962年來 你會看見這個
I went down to the South Omaha Library,and I think for a dollar, I got seven copies of old "New York Times" from big times like the Panic of 1907.
我來到南奧馬哈圖書館 我用了1美元 拿到了7份舊的紐約時報 有1907年大恐慌時的