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There's no hindsight involved here. Bill was the only person I recommended to my partners， and I said at the time that if he achieved a four-point-per-annum advantage over the Standard & Poor's， that would be solid performance. Bill has achieved well over that， working with progressively larger sums of money. That makes things much more difficult. Size is the anchor of performance. There is no question about it. It doesn't mean you can't do better than average when you get larger， but the margin shrinks. And if you ever get so you're managing two trillion dollars， and that happens to be the amount of the total equity valuation in the economy， don't think that you'll do better than average！
其中并不涉及后见之明。比尔是我推荐给合伙股东的惟一人选，我当时就表示，如果他的绩效能够高出史坦普指数四个百分点，这便是非常稳固的表现。比尔的绩效远甚于此，而且所管理的资金规模不断地扩大。这使得管理愈来愈困难。资金规模是绩效的拖累，这是毫无疑问的。这并不意味当资金规模扩大，你的表现便无法超越平均水准，只是超越的幅度会缩小。如果你所管理的资金是2兆美元，则你的表现必然无法超越平均水准，因为你的资金规模便是整个股票市场的总市值。
I should add that in the records we've looked at so far， throughout this whole period there was practically no duplication in these portfolios. These are men who select securities based on discrepancies between price and value， but they make their selections very differently. Walter's largest holdings have been such stalwarts as Hudson Pulp & Paper and Jeddo Highland Coal and New York Trap Rock Company and all those other names that come instantly to mind to even a casual reader of the business pages. Tweedy Browne's selections have sunk even well below that level in terms of name recognition. On the other hand， Bill has worked with big companies. The overlap among these portfolios has been very， very low. These records do not reflect one guy calling the flip and fifty people yelling out the same thing after him.
我必须补充说明一下，截至目前我们所观察的记录，投资组合在整段期间都几乎没有重叠。他们都是根据价格与价值间的差异来选股，选择的标的也截然不同。华特的最重要持股都是扎实的企业，如Hudson Pulp&Paper、Jeddo HighHand Coal、New York Trap Rock Company，即使是偶尔阅读金融版新闻的人，对这些企业的名称也耳熟能详。帝地布朗公司所选择的标的则更是名不见经传的企业。另一方面，比尔的选择标的则是大型企业。这些投资组合极少出现重叠现象。他们的记录并非由某人主导的猜测铜板，其他人则只听命附和。
Table 5 is the record of a friend of mine who is a Harvard Law graduate， who set up a major law firm. I ran into him in about 1960 and told him that law was fine as a hobby but he could do better. He set up a partnership quite the opposite of Walter's. His portfolio was concentrated in very few securities and therefore his record was much more volatile but it was based on the same discount-from-value approach. He was willing to accept greater peaks and valleys of performance， and he happens to be a fellow whose whole psyche goes toward concentration， with the results shown. Incidentally， this record belongs to Charlie Munger， my partner for a long time in the operation of Berkshire Hathaway. When he ran his partnership， however， his portfolio holdings were almost completely different from mine and the other fellows mentioned earlier.
表5的投资业绩来自于我的—位朋友，他毕业于哈佛法学院，并且成立了一家主要的法律事务所。我大约在1960年认识他，并且建议说，法律作为嗜好是件好事，但是他应该做得更好。于是，他成立了一家合伙公司，他的操作方式和华特迥异，他的投资组合集中在极少数的证券，因此绩效的变动比较激烈，但他仍然依据相同的价值折价法从事投资。他愿意接受绩效的上下震荡，而他恰好是一位精神极度集中的人。他的名字是查理·蒙格，他是我在柏克夏公司从事操作的长期合伙股东。当他自己经营合伙事业时，他的投资组合和我或任何先前所提到的人完全都不同。
