什么是原则？ 原则是什么意思(3)

1960年，股票市场很繁荣，很多人参与其中，特别是我做球童时服务的那些人，我开始投资，我买的第一支股票是东北航空这家公司，这是我当时知道的唯一一家每股小于5元钱的公司，所以我能买更多数量的股票，我相信这是好事。它涨了很多，这家公司即将破产，被另一家公司收购，从而涨了三倍，很幸运，我赚到了钱，但赚钱没有相继发生，我开始觉得这个游戏很容易，有成百上千的公司被列在报纸上，找到一支上涨的股票很困难吗？通过比较，我觉得还是这种赚钱方式有趣、容易，有利可图。当然，没过多久我就亏钱了，选对股票很困难，选错了的代价就更高了。
So what I really wanted to do now was beat the market. I just had to figure out how to do it.
所以，现在我真的想去做的是打败市场，我必须搞明白怎样去做。
The pursuit of this goal taught me:
对目标的渴望教会了我一些事情：
1 It isnt easy for me to be confident that my opinions are right. In the markets, you can do ahuge amount of work and still be wrong.
1坚持认为自己观点正确很不容易，在股市里，你可能做了很多但依然错误。
2 Bad opinions can be very costly. Most people come up with opinions and there’s no cost to them. Not so in the market. This is why I have learned to be cautious. No matter how hard I work, I really can’t be sure.
糟糕的意见成本很高，大多数给意见的人，其实不承担任何成本。股市不是这样，我学会了谨慎，无论我工作多么努力，我都无法确定市场走向。
3 The consensus is often wrong, so I have to be an independent thinker. To make any money,you have to be right when they’re wrong.
共识通常是错的，所以我必须变成一个独立思考者，为了赚钱，你必须做到，当别人错误时，你正确。
3.1 I worked for what I wanted, not for what others wanted me to do. For that reason, I never feltthat I had to do anything. All the work I ever did was just what I needed to do to get what I wanted. Since I always had the prerogative to strive for what I wanted, I never felt forced to do anything.
我做我想要的工作，而不是其他人要我做的工作，因为这个理由，我做事情从没有必须做的，我曾做的所有工作都是我需要做的和得到我想要的。我总是有特权为了我想要的而努力。我从不被强迫做任何事。