股神巴菲特稱人生最美好的事就是沒去哈佛大學!

After graduating from the University of Nebraska, Warren Buffett applied to Harvard Business School.

在從內布拉斯加大學畢業後，沃倫·巴菲特申請了哈佛商學院。

"They told me I was to get interviewed in a place near Chicago," the iconic investor recounts in HBO's "Becoming Warren Buffett". "I got there and they interviewed me for about 10 minutes and said: 'Forget it. You're not going to Harvard.'"

這位投資大師在HBO的節目《成爲巴菲特》中回憶道：“他們告訴我要在芝加哥附近的一個地方面試我。我去了那個地方，他們面試了我大概10分鐘，然後說：'算了吧，你去不了哈佛。'”

Buffett's first thought was, "What do I tell my dad? This is terrible." But, he says, "it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me."

當時巴菲特的第一個想法是：“我該怎麼告訴我爸爸？這太可怕了。”但是他現在卻說：“最後證明，這是發生在我身上最好的事情。”

The rejection opened the door to Columbia. Later that summer, while looking through a catalog for Columbia Business School, Buffett recognized the names of two professors: Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, and David Dodd.

哈佛的拒絕爲他打開了一扇通往哥倫比亞大學的大門。在那個夏天稍晚一些時候，巴菲特翻閱哥倫比亞大學商學院目錄時發現了兩位教授的名字：價值投資之父本傑明·格雷厄姆和戴維·多德。

"I had read this book "Security Analysis" by the two of them, so I wrote them a letter in mid-August," Buffett says. "I said, 'Dear Professor Dodd. I thought you guys were dead, but now that I found out that you're alive and teaching at Columbia, I would really like to come.' And he admitted me."

巴菲特說道：“我讀過他倆寫的《證券分析》，因此我8月中旬的時候給他們寫了一封信。我說，'親愛的多德教授。我本以爲你們倆位已經去世了，沒想到你們還活着、在哥倫比亞大學教書，我真的很想當你們的學生。'後來他就錄取了我。”

"Ben was this incredible teacher. He was a natural and he drew us all in," Buffett says of Graham. "It was like learning baseball from a fellow who was batting 400. It shaped my professional life."

巴菲特評價格雷厄姆教授時說道：“本是一個不可思議的老師。他的教學潤物無聲，使我們所有人都沉浸其中。就像跟棒球隊裏一個能打400碼遠的小夥伴學習一樣。那塑造了我的職業生涯。”

It was Graham who taught him "the two rules of investing" that Buffett has lived by throughout his massively successful career.

巴菲特正是依靠格雷厄姆教他的“投資的兩項原則”，建立起了自己成功的事業。

"Rule number one: Never lose money," Buffett says. "Rule number two: Never forget rule number one."

巴菲特說道：“第一條原則，永遠不要虧錢。第二條原則，永遠不要忘記第一條原則。”