巴菲特致股东的信-2003年

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC.波克夏海瑟崴股份有限公司
To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:
致Berkshire公司全体股东:
Our gain in net worth during 2003 was $13.6 billion, which increased the per-share book value of both our Class A and Class B stock by 21%. Over the last 39 years (that is, since present management took over) per-share book value has grown from $19 to $50,498, a rate of 22.2% compounded annually.*
经结算本公司2003年的净值增加了136亿美元，A股或B股每股的帐面净值增加了21.0%，累计过去39年以来，也就是自从现有经营阶层接手之后，每股净值由当初的19元成长到现在的50,498美元，年复合成长率约为22.2%*。
It’s per-share intrinsic value that counts, however, not book value. Here, the news is good: Between 1964 and 2003, Berkshire morphed from a struggling northern textile business whose intrinsic value was less than book into a widely diversified enterprise worth far more than book. Our 39-year gain in intrinsic value has therefore somewhat exceeded our 22.2% gain in book. (For a better understanding of intrinsic value and the economic principles that guide Charlie Munger, my partner and Berkshire’s vicechairman, and me in running Berkshire, please read our Owner’s Manual, beginning on page 69.)
我们真正在乎的是实质价值，而非帐面价值，而庆幸的是，从1964年到2003年期间，Berkshire已经从一家原本摇摇欲坠的北方纺织公司，蜕变成一个跨足各个产业的大型集团，其实质价值大幅超越帐面价值，39年来实质价值的成长率甚至远超过帐面价值22.2%的成长率，(想要对实质价值与本人与查理孟格经营Berkshire的原则有更多的了解的人，我建议大家阅读69页的股东手册)。