Life is What You Make it

Warren Buffett 的兒子的書.
有一個非凡的父親, 身為兒子完全明白父親運用財富的心意. 他也安份的做一個作曲家.
不過, 他作歌的天份比著書好. 書內很多內容是他如何作歌的經過, 似沒有受過很多挫折. 不過, 有些地方說父母親如何教養他, 也看得出他是優秀父母. 

Core value: Trust, education and book learning

父母親的價值觀.

No one asks to be born. No one gets to choose his parents or to have a say in the circumstances of her birth.

Of all the ways in which affluent parents make things too easy for their sons and daughters, perhaps the most widespread is inviting them into the family business, or steering them into a profession in which a forebear his already succeeded.

For my own parents, the priority was clear. Their hope for my siblings and me was that each of us would find a passion and pursue it with all our diligence and energy - that we should claim our own lives, put our own stamp on everything we did.

If your calling is to be a chef, being average in the kitchen clearly isn't good enough. No committed teacher wants to be average in the classroom. No author wants to be average on the page.

The mistakes we have made, and the course corrections that resulted from those blunders, are an essential part of our evolution.

Life may not be fair, but it often turns out to be surprisingly symmetrical. A wish – can sometimes prove to be a curse, the thwarting of a wish can sometimes end up being a hidden blessing.

Money should be seen as a spin-off of success, a side effect, and not the measure of success itself.

"You know, Pete, you and I really do the same thing. Music is your canvas. Berkshire's my canvas and I get to paint a little every day.' That was all he said - and it was plenty.

巴菲特這番說話, 影響到兒子對音樂事業的追求.

My father worked extremely hard because he loved what he did, because it challenged and excited him. Money cam eventually, but the passion and the curiosity were there from the start. Money followed; it never led.
說巴菲特把投資是當作工作, 找尋當中的滿足感, 賺到金錢反而是次要. 所以, 一直都很節儉.

I was really proud of him. It was the only thing I could think of to say.

當巴菲特說要把錢作慈善用途, 作者有這個表述.