每當奧馬哈先知開壇設講，眾人就趕去朝圣。事實上，每年有數千伯克希爾-哈撒韋公司股東涌向內布拉斯加州小城奧馬哈，聽巴菲特講投資。

當今世界能受得起如此頂禮膜拜的商業領袖當然非巴菲特莫屬。他幾乎每活10年身家就會漲個一兩倍，現在已經達到670億美元。伯克希爾-哈撒韋的股價呢？呵呵，一股191396美元，在美國隨便哪個州都夠買套房子。

巴菲特，快教教我們成功秘訣吧！

講述巴菲特如何積累財富的書不計其數（在亞馬遜網站上，搜索他的名字出來的結果幾乎有20頁）。在股票資訊網站The Motley Fool、《華爾街日報》網站和財經科技新聞網站Business Insider上，關于巴菲特的文章可能數以千計。

不過，介紹他工作之余做什么的文章并不多。

也難怪，當下流行的職場文化就是努力拼殺的工作狂們天天熬夜加班，所以對讀者來說巴菲特工作的狀態要比居家愛好更有價值。不過，巴菲特看待管理、投資和賺大錢這么從容淡定，主要歸結于他在工作和生活之間令人羨慕的平衡。

以下是沃倫?巴菲特的五項日常活動，我們可以借鑒：

1. 500頁的閱讀量

一次，有人問他怎么變得更聰明，股神拿起一疊文件說：“每天都讀500頁的東西，有這么厚。知識就是這么積累起來的，就像復利。”

巴菲特估計，他每天要花80%的時間閱讀，工作時讀財報、報刊和報告，在家讀報紙和書籍。我們當中有些人一年也讀不了這么多。

“和商界大多數人相比，我讀的和想的多一些，沖動決定少一些。”有道理，閱讀質量越高，得到的信息就越多，就越不容易沖動。

2. 做些運動

巴菲特曾說過，保持年輕狀態的秘密就是“像個六歲小孩一樣吃東西”，其中包括每天最多喝五罐可樂。他承認：“我的四分之一都是可口可樂。”（他持有價值160億美元的可口可樂股票，這么說還真沒啥錯。）85歲的巴菲特還喜歡享用漢堡、牛排、炸薯餅和冰激凌蘇打。

2007年，77歲的巴菲特曾透露，醫生給了他兩個選擇，“要么吃得健康些，要么運動”。巴菲特選了運動，“兩害相權取其輕”。生活上的這個小小改變一定起了作用。2015年巴菲特戰勝了前列腺癌，如今看上去依然快樂而健康。

3. 心存感激，不浪費

追隨著偶像查克?菲尼（菲尼秘密捐出了所有財產）的腳步，巴菲特已成世界上最大的慈善家之一。幾十位億萬富翁在他的裸捐承諾書上簽了字，其中包括承諾將一半的資產凈值用于慈善事業的比爾?蓋茨。巴菲特的承諾是捐出生前99%的財富。

“如果成為人群中最幸運的1%，你對別人就有義務，應該多想想另外的99%。”

巴菲特還以節儉著稱。他至今仍住在1958年花3.15萬美元買來的房子里（諷刺的是，現在想住他旁邊要花很多錢）。他還喜歡邀請到奧馬哈拜訪他的投資者去麥當勞吃午餐。

4. 玩需要耐心的游戲

和查克?菲尼一樣，巴菲特承認管理自己日益增長的財富就像是玩游戲。這并不奇怪。巴菲特很喜歡游戲，經常為了更好地看清投資規律玩金融類“心理游戲”。

他還喜歡通過打橋牌保持頭腦敏銳（和大富翁一樣，橋牌是出了名的費時間）。巴菲特實在太喜歡打橋牌了，有時人們會看到他在奧馬哈的一條購物街上花七美元跟退休的人打橋牌。

巴菲特表示：“打橋牌是鍛煉智力最好的方法。每過10分鐘場上形勢都不一樣……橋牌的精髓就是權衡輸贏幾率，每時每刻都在計算。”

5. 有一個純粹為了找樂的愛好

對一周經常工作100多個小時的華爾街分析師來說，自然無暇顧及愛好這種俗物。但巴菲特就有愛好。信不信由你，他的四弦小吉他彈得相當好。他甚至還自己寫歌。YouTube上就有他唱可口可樂歌曲以及跟邦?喬維二重奏的視頻。（財富中文網）

譯者：Charlie

審校：夏林

When the Oracle of Omaha talks, people make pilgrimages. In fact, thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders flock to the tiny town of Omaha, Nebraska each year to hear him talk about investing.

Of course, if any business leader can command that level of devotion, it’s Mr. Buffett. He has practically doubled or tripled his net worth in every decade of his life, and is now worth $67 billion. A single share of his company’s stock? Try $191,396. That’s enough to buy a house in any one of the 50 states.

Teach us your ways, Warren!

There are countless books on how Buffett accumulated his wealth (Amazon has almost 20 pages of results under his name). The number of articles about him on sites like The Motley Fool, The Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider is probably somewhere in the thousands.

But there aren’t that many articles on what he does in his spare time after work.

This isn’t surprising. In our current culture ofcompetitive workaholics who regularly work late hours, Buffett’s office schedule is more valuable to readers than his home hobbies. But his famous Zen attitude towards managing, investing and making billions can be largely attributed to his enviable work-life balance.

Here are five things Warren Buffett does each day that we could all learn from:

1. Read 500 pages.

Once, when asked how to get smarter, the Oracle held up a stack of papers and said, “read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge builds up, like compound interest.”

Buffett estimates that he spends 80 percent of his waking day reading at work (financial statements, journals, reports) and at home (newspapers and books). Some of us don’t read that many pages each year.

“I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business.” Makes sense; the better read you are, the more informed you are, the less impulsive you are.

2. Exercise a little.

Buffett once said that his secret to staying young is to “eat like a six-year-old.” This includes drinking up to five Cokes a day. “I’m one-quarter Coca-Cola,” he admitted. (Considering he owns $16 billion in Coca-Cola stock, that’s not too far from the truth.) Keep in mind that the 85-year-old also likes to eat hamburgers, steaks, hash browns and root beer floats.

In 2007 (at the age of 77), he revealed that his doctor had given him a simple choice: “Either you eat better or you exercise.” Buffett chose exercise, “the lesser of two evils.” The simple life change must have worked. After beating prostate cancer in 2015,he still looks happy and healthy.

3. Be grateful, not wasteful.

Following in the footsteps of his hero, Chuck Feeney(who secretly gave away his entire fortune), Buffett is one of the world’s biggest philanthropists. HisGiving Pledge also boasts dozens of billionaire signees, including Bill Gates, who have committed half their net worth to charitable causes. Buffett has pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune during his lifetime.

“If you’re in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”

He is also famously frugal, so it all works out. Not only does Mr. Buffett live in the same house he bought in 1958 for $31,500 (ironically, it costs significantly more to live next to him). He also likes to treat investors who visit him in Omaha to McDonald’s for lunch.

4. Play a game that requires patience.

Like Chuck Feeney, Buffett has admitted that he manages his ever-growing fortune like he’s playing a game. This isn’t surprising. He enjoys games, and regularly plays financial “mind games” to help him better see patterns in his investments.

He also likes to stay sharp by playing Bridge (which, like Monopoly, takes a notoriously long time to finish). In fact, Buffett likes Bridge so much that he can sometimes be found in an Omaha strip mall, paying $7 to play against retirees.

“It’s got to be the best intellectual exercise out there,” he claims. “You’re seeing new situations every 10 minutes…Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You’re doing calculations all the time.”

5. Have a hobby that’s just for fun.

For Wall Street analysts who often work 100+ hours a week, something as mundane as a “hobby” is inevitably put on the back burner. But Warren likes his hobbies. If you can believe it, he’s a pretty good ukulele player and even writes his own songs. There are YouTube videos of him singing about Coca Cola and playing duets with Bon Jovi.