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Warren Buffett's life lessons to his children. By Daniella Genovese FOXBusiness, January 12, 2024
巴菲特與其子霍華德
Howard Buffett said it's important to surround yourself with good people
Howard Buffett explains how his childhood experiences influenced him to become a philanthropist.
Despite growing up with more privilege than most, Warren Buffett's children were expected to address injustice in society and to try and support those who did not have the same opportunities they had.
It was just one of the many lessons the Berkshire Hathaway CEO instilled in his three children – and it stuck.
Howard Buffett has carried out a mission to do just that throughout his life, not only as a sheriff in Macon County, Illinois, but heading the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, one of the largest private charitable foundations in the U.S. that has been dedicated to improving the quality of life for the world’s most impoverished and marginalized populations since the late 1990s.
" My brother and sister and I grew up in a home where we were aware of a lot of things, our parents talked about those things," Howard Buffett told FOX Business. "As a result, we were expected to do everything we could to address anything that we saw in our lifetime that we thought was unfair, unjust…. try to level the playing field and support people who did not have the same opportunities that we had."
During his stint as a sheriff, Buffett recalled walking into homes with "horrendous living conditions," including instances in which children were neglected and had not eaten in days. With his foundation, Buffett comes face to face with "such injustice in some countries," severe starvation and the displacement of thousands of refugees because of conflict.
霍華德·巴菲特參加基金會會員在為難民制作食物的活動
He has been on the ground in several war-torn communities, like the Democratic Republic of the Congo or the Sudan, to help them improve food security, conflict mitigation as well as combat human trafficking and public safety for decades.
Many of these goals are daunting, and Buffett admitted that it will be impossible to achieve some of them, such as global hunger.
"This is where my pessimism and optimism kind of collide. We'll never solve global hunger. It isn't going to happen. That's a fact," he said. "Then you have to be optimistic enough to think that, OK, but I can have an impact on it. And I can certainly have an impact in certain areas."
Buffett said one of the things his dad told him and his siblings was to "stay within your circle of competence, but always challenge yourself," he said.
He was also reminded that failure was an important part of success.
"That's also something that my dad taught me is you can't be scared to fail," he said. "The way you're going to get the really good things done is because you have failed and you've learned what not to do, and you've learned what to do, and you've learned how to do it better."
One of the lessons Buffett is now instilling in others is to treat others the way you want to be treated and to surround yourself with good people.
"My dad always said, you can't do a good deal with a bad guy," Buffett recalled.
If you have "people around you that aren't working, that don't have the same goals and don't have the same agenda, they don't have the same values or principles, you have to get rid of them," he added.
Buffett made it clear that the foundation's team is dedicated to the work it does.
"I tell our staff all the time, think of the opportunity you have. We're spending hundreds of millions of dollars and trying to actually change some things in the world. Not everybody gets to do that."
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丹尼拉吉諾維斯【沃倫·巴菲特給他的孩子們上的人生課】，2024年1月12日【福斯商業新聞】。
盡管沃倫·巴菲特的孩子們比大多數人都更有特權，但他們被期待幫助解決社會上的不公正問題，並努力支持那些沒有同樣機會的人。
霍華德·巴菲特強調，他父親教給他們的一個重要教訓是：與好人為伍很重要。他向媒體解釋了他的童年經歷是如何影響他成為一名慈善家的。這只是伯克希爾哈撒韋公司執行長沃倫·巴菲特灌輸給他的三個孩子的眾多教訓之一，且須堅持不懈。
霍華德·巴菲特一生都在執行父親交給他的幫助解決社會不公問題的使命，他不僅擔任過伊利諾斯州梅肯縣的治安官員，目前還領導著美國最大的私人慈善基金會之一霍華德·G·巴菲特基金會。自20世紀90年代末以來，該基金會一直致力於改善世界上最貧困和邊緣化人口的生活品質。
霍華德·巴菲特在接受福斯商業頻道采訪時表示：「我和我的兄妹一起長大，我們學到很多事情，我們的父母都在談論這些事情。因此，我們被期望盡我們所能來解決我們一生中看到的不公平、不公正問題……努力營造公平的競爭環境，支持那些沒有我們所擁有的機會的人。"
霍華德回憶說，在擔任治安官員期間，他曾走進過孩子們被忽視、幾天沒吃東西吃的「生活條件惡劣」的家庭。在為基金會工作時，霍華德曾面對「一些國家的不公正」，嚴重的饑餓和數千名難民因沖突而流離失所等悲慘狀況。
幾十年來，他一直在幾個飽受戰爭蹂躪的國家，如剛果民主共和國或蘇丹工作，幫助他們改善糧食安全，緩解沖突，以及打擊人口販運和改進公共安全。
霍華德承認，這些目標中的許多令人怯步，其中一些是不可能實作的，比如全球饑餓。他說：「這就是我的悲觀主義和樂觀主義發生碰撞的地方。我們永遠無法解決全球饑餓問題。這是不可能的事實。但你又必須足夠樂觀地認為，好吧，我可以在某些領域對此產生影響。"
霍華德說，他父親告訴他和他的兄弟姐妹們的一件事是「要在自己的能力範圍內，持續挑戰自己」。他還被提醒說，失敗是成功的重要組成部份。他說：「我爸爸告訴我 不能害怕失敗。你從失敗中得到的真正的好的教益是，你能從失敗中學會不該做什麽，該做什麽和如何做得更好。」
巴菲特一直向別人灌輸的教訓之一是，以你想被對待的方式對待別人，並與好人為伍。
霍華德回憶說：「我爸爸總是說，不要與壞人為伍。」他補充說，如果「你身邊的人不好，與你沒有相同的目標，也沒有相同的議程，沒有相同的價值觀或原則，你就必須擺脫他們。」
霍華德明確表示，該基金會的團隊將致力於其工作。他強調說：「我一直告訴我們的員工，想想你所擁有的機會。我們花費數億美元，試圖真正改變世界上的一些東西，並不是每個人都會有這樣的機會。"
