Warren Buffett is a big fan of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's book, "Lean In."
Facebook首席运营官雪莉桑德伯格出了一本书《Lean In》,巴菲特是该书的忠实粉丝。
It inspired his recent column in Fortune, where he wrote, "we've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future."
这本书激发了他在《财富》杂志中写了专栏,他写道,“我们已经看到,当我们发挥出我们人类能力的50%时,我们可以实现什么。你想象一下如果人类发挥100%的潜能去做事,对美国的未来,我们都将是乐天派。”
He spoke on gender issues again, this time during a live interview, "Office Hours With Warren Buffett," with career site Levo League, where he shared some great career advice for young women. Here are some of the best quotes from his talk:
他再一次论述了性别问题,这一次是在现场采访中,在“与巴菲特的办公时间”职业网站Levo League里,他和年轻女性分享了很多好的职业建议。这里是一些他的谈话语录:
Stop holding yourself back
别退缩
"I've seen very, very bright women. I use the example of Katherine Graham. ... While she was CEO of The Washington Post, the stock went up [by a lot]. She won a Pulitzer Prize. But she'd been told by her mother, she'd been told by her husband, she'd been told by lots of people that women weren't as good as men in business. It was nonsense.
“我见过非常、非常聪明的女性。我以凯瑟琳·格雷厄姆为例。在她担任《华盛顿邮报》首席执行官一职时,股价上升(许多)。她赢得过普利策奖。但她的母亲告诉她,她的丈夫告诉她,很多人告诉她,在商界,女性没有男性做的好。这是无稽之谈。
"And I kept telling her, you know, 'Quit looking at that fun house mirror. You know, here's a real mirror. You're something.' And as smart as she was, as high grade as she was, you know, as famous as she became, right to her dying day, you know, she had t