秘诀: 成功人士坚守的6条财富守则

4. Warren Buffett, Investor: Know-How Is Good, Know-Who Is Better
4.沃伦·巴菲特，投资家：有知识好，有人脉更好

Warren Buffett arrived at his savvy investment philosophy when he was very young, but his know-how was nearly worthless because he personally lacked enough capital to make large market moves. Buffett didn't get rich until he overcame his shyness, recruited members for his investment partnerships, and led those partners in squeezing stock performance out of corporate managers. Case in point: No one gets rich alone.
沃伦·巴菲特很年轻的时候就悟出了他的投资哲学。但由于他缺少足够的资金来推动整个庞大的市场，他那些对世事的洞察几乎毫无用武之地。巴菲特成为了有钱人是因为他战胜了自己胆小腼腆的毛病。他招募了一些投资伙伴，并且带领着这些伙伴从公司管理者那儿榨取了股票业绩。这个案例的重点是：没有人能仅仅依靠自己获得成功。

5. Richard Branson, Virgin Founder: Spread the Work, Spread the Wealth
5.理查德·布兰森，维珍品牌创始人：给别人工作，财富才会滚滚来

Sir Richard Branson suffers from severe dyslexia, but he's come to regard it as his greatest strength. Branson runs his Virgin Group as a venture capital fund that places bets on entrepreneurs with bright ideas that fit the Virgin brand strategy. He's never tempted to micro-manage any of the dozens of Virgin companies because he can't. "If I could read a balance sheet, " he once said, "I wouldn't have done anything in life." In sum, work your strengths and get others to work theirs.
理查德·布莱森爵士患有严重的失语症，但他却把这当做自己的巨大优势。布莱森将他的维珍集团运营为一家风险投资基金，将赌注压在了那些具有奇思妙想并且符合维珍品牌战略的企业家身上。他从未考虑过对那些数量巨大的维珍旗下公司进行管理，因为他没法这么干。“假如我看一张资产负债表，”他曾说，“那我生活中什么事儿都干不了了。”总而言之，你要让你的优势发挥作用并且让他人也能发挥他们的优势。

6. Steve Jobs, Apple Founder: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
6.史蒂夫·乔布斯，苹果创始人：失败乃成功之母

Steve Jobs had a vision, back in the 1980s, for a three-dimensional imaging computer that would revolutionize the defense, oil, and medical industries. He was wrong about it, and he lost millions of his own dollars before shutting down production of the $125, 000 Pixar Imaging Computer in 1991. At the time, Pixar's only profitable unit was a tiny team of animators using Pixar software to make computer-generated TV commercials--a team that would later form the Pixar movie studio that made Toy Story. And when Jobs died in 2011, more than 70 percent of his $8.3 billion fortune came from his stake in Pixar Studios, in an industry he never had any intention of entering.
早在20世纪80年代，史蒂夫·乔布斯就预想了一种三维成像计算机，这种计算机将在国防、采油和冶金工业方面产生革命性的影响。他想错了，在他于1991年停止生产价值12.5万美元的皮克斯成像计算机前，他损失了数以百万计的个人财产。当时，皮克斯唯一盈利的项目是一个使用皮克斯软件制作电脑合成电视广告的动画团队。正是这个团队在之后组建了皮克斯电影工作室，他们创造了《玩具总动员》。更有甚者，当乔布斯于2011年去世时，他83亿美元资产的70%来自于他所持有的皮克斯工作室的股份，而这是一个他从未想过涉及的领域。