Original Title 原标题：Berkshire Hathaway star followed Warren Buffett’s advice: Read 500 pages a day
伯克希尔·哈撒韦的明星投资经理听从巴菲特的建议，每天阅读500页
Todd Combs, an investment lieutenant at Berkshire Hathaway, got great advice the first time he encountered his current boss, Warren Buffett, in 2000, the year he started his MBA at Columbia Business School. The Oracle of Omaha was speaking to Combs and 165 other students during an investing class.
2000年，奥马哈的投资圣哲沃伦·巴菲特在哥伦比亚大学商学院的一个投资班里向托德·康布斯（Todd Combs）和其它165名学生发表演说。这是康布斯第一次从巴菲特那里得到建议。当时，康布斯刚刚开始在哥伦比亚大学商学院攻读MBA，后来他成了伯克希尔·哈撒韦的投资副官，而巴菲特成了他的老板。
In response to a question about how to prepare for an investing career, Buffett told the students, “Read 500 pages like this every day,” while reaching toward a stack of manuals and papers. “That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.”
在回答一个关于如何为投资生涯做好准备时，巴菲特对学生们说：“每天阅读500页这样的文稿。”他边说边向一堆手稿和文件走过去。“这就是知识的作用。它像复利一样不断地增长。你们人人都可以做到，但我敢肯定你们当中不会有很多人会那样做。”
Combs, now 47 and a protege of the Berkshire Hathaway CEO, took the advice to heart. As he began his investing career, he read even more, sometimes hitting up to 1,000 pages a day.
现年47岁（2018年）的康布斯是伯克希尔·哈撒韦首席执行官巴菲特的门生。他把巴菲特当时的建议铭记于心。当他开始他的投资生涯时，他阅读更多，有时一天阅读量达到1000页。
“Combs’s approach was a race against the clock to consume information, says one person familiar with his strategy during that period,” Bloomberg reports. “If he wasn’t in a meeting with his analysts or taking a break to exercise, he was reading, three people say.”
彭博社报道：“一位对康布斯当时的战略比较熟悉的人说，康布斯的方法是与时间赛跑一样吸收信息。有三人说，如果他不是在与分析师们开会或休息锻炼的话，他一定是在阅读。”
Reading voraciously appears to have helped him get ahead.
如饥似渴地贪婪阅读似乎帮助他获得成功。
Combs, who started as a financial-services analyst after graduating from Columbia, began running his own hedge fund, Castle Point Capital Management, in 2005. He joined Berkshire Hathaway in early 2011 as an investment manager and he “is already in line to manage a huge swath of Berkshire’s investments when Buffett, 87, leaves the scene,” Bloomberg reports. Some shareholders even “speculate that he could one day become CEO as well.”
康布斯在从哥伦比亚大学毕业后，从金融服务分析师开始职业生涯，2005年开始经营他自己的对冲基金Castle Point资本管理公司。2011年初，他加入伯克希尔·哈撒韦，成为公司的投资经理。彭博报道：“当87岁的巴菲特退出伯克希尔·哈撒韦时，康布斯有资格管理公司的巨额投资。”一些股东甚至“预测他可能在某一天成为伯克希尔·哈撒韦的CEO。”
The investment manager, who recently helped join together Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon in an effort to change American health care, still finds time to read. “I read about 12 hours a day,” he told the Florida State alumni magazine last year. “Our offices are like a library. So I read annual reports, conference call transcripts, trade magazines, etc.”
康布斯最近加入巴菲特、杰夫·贝索斯以及杰米·戴蒙的行业，一起努力改变美国的医疗保健，但他仍寻找时间去阅读。“我每天大约阅读12小时。”他在去年（2017）接受佛罗里达州校友会杂志采访时说：“我们的办公室像一个图书馆。因此，我在那里阅读年度报告、电话会议文稿、贸易杂志等等。”
At this point, he’s logging more reading hours than his boss, who spends five or six hours a day poring over books and newspapers.
在这个层面上，康布斯花在阅读的时间比他的老板还多。巴菲特每天花在阅读书籍和报纸的时间是五到六个小时。
“I read and think,” Buffett once said. “So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
“我边阅读边思考。”巴菲特曾经说：“因此，比起大多数商界人物，我的阅读和思考更多，作出的冲动决定就更少。我这么做是因为我喜欢这样的生活方式。”
伯克希尔·哈撒韦的明星投资经理听从巴菲特的建议，每天阅读500页
Todd Combs, an investment lieutenant at Berkshire Hathaway, got great advice the first time he encountered his current boss, Warren Buffett, in 2000, the year he started his MBA at Columbia Business School. The Oracle of Omaha was speaking to Combs and 165 other students during an investing class.
2000年，奥马哈的投资圣哲沃伦·巴菲特在哥伦比亚大学商学院的一个投资班里向托德·康布斯（Todd Combs）和其它165名学生发表演说。这是康布斯第一次从巴菲特那里得到建议。当时，康布斯刚刚开始在哥伦比亚大学商学院攻读MBA，后来他成了伯克希尔·哈撒韦的投资副官，而巴菲特成了他的老板。
In response to a question about how to prepare for an investing career, Buffett told the students, “Read 500 pages like this every day,” while reaching toward a stack of manuals and papers. “That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.”
在回答一个关于如何为投资生涯做好准备时，巴菲特对学生们说：“每天阅读500页这样的文稿。”他边说边向一堆手稿和文件走过去。“这就是知识的作用。它像复利一样不断地增长。你们人人都可以做到，但我敢肯定你们当中不会有很多人会那样做。”
Combs, now 47 and a protege of the Berkshire Hathaway CEO, took the advice to heart. As he began his investing career, he read even more, sometimes hitting up to 1,000 pages a day.
现年47岁（2018年）的康布斯是伯克希尔·哈撒韦首席执行官巴菲特的门生。他把巴菲特当时的建议铭记于心。当他开始他的投资生涯时，他阅读更多，有时一天阅读量达到1000页。
“Combs’s approach was a race against the clock to consume information, says one person familiar with his strategy during that period,” Bloomberg reports. “If he wasn’t in a meeting with his analysts or taking a break to exercise, he was reading, three people say.”
彭博社报道：“一位对康布斯当时的战略比较熟悉的人说，康布斯的方法是与时间赛跑一样吸收信息。有三人说，如果他不是在与分析师们开会或休息锻炼的话，他一定是在阅读。”
Reading voraciously appears to have helped him get ahead.
如饥似渴地贪婪阅读似乎帮助他获得成功。
Combs, who started as a financial-services analyst after graduating from Columbia, began running his own hedge fund, Castle Point Capital Management, in 2005. He joined Berkshire Hathaway in early 2011 as an investment manager and he “is already in line to manage a huge swath of Berkshire’s investments when Buffett, 87, leaves the scene,” Bloomberg reports. Some shareholders even “speculate that he could one day become CEO as well.”
康布斯在从哥伦比亚大学毕业后，从金融服务分析师开始职业生涯，2005年开始经营他自己的对冲基金Castle Point资本管理公司。2011年初，他加入伯克希尔·哈撒韦，成为公司的投资经理。彭博报道：“当87岁的巴菲特退出伯克希尔·哈撒韦时，康布斯有资格管理公司的巨额投资。”一些股东甚至“预测他可能在某一天成为伯克希尔·哈撒韦的CEO。”
The investment manager, who recently helped join together Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon in an effort to change American health care, still finds time to read. “I read about 12 hours a day,” he told the Florida State alumni magazine last year. “Our offices are like a library. So I read annual reports, conference call transcripts, trade magazines, etc.”
康布斯最近加入巴菲特、杰夫·贝索斯以及杰米·戴蒙的行业，一起努力改变美国的医疗保健，但他仍寻找时间去阅读。“我每天大约阅读12小时。”他在去年（2017）接受佛罗里达州校友会杂志采访时说：“我们的办公室像一个图书馆。因此，我在那里阅读年度报告、电话会议文稿、贸易杂志等等。”
At this point, he’s logging more reading hours than his boss, who spends five or six hours a day poring over books and newspapers.
在这个层面上，康布斯花在阅读的时间比他的老板还多。巴菲特每天花在阅读书籍和报纸的时间是五到六个小时。
“I read and think,” Buffett once said. “So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
“我边阅读边思考。”巴菲特曾经说：“因此，比起大多数商界人物，我的阅读和思考更多，作出的冲动决定就更少。我这么做是因为我喜欢这样的生活方式。”