Our favorite form of purchase is one fitting the Blumkin- Friedman-Heldman mold. In cases like these, the company"s owner- managers wish to generate significant amounts of cash, sometimes for themselves, but often for their families or inactive shareholders. At the same time, these managers wish to remain significant owners who continue to run their companies just as they have in the past. We think we offer a particularly good fit for owners with such objectives. We invite potential sellers to check us out by contacting people with whom we have done business in the past.
我们最喜欢的交易对象之一是像B太太- Heldman家族那样，公司经营者希望能马上有一大笔现金，不管是给自己、家人或是其它股东，最好这些经营者如往常一样能够继续留在公司，我想我们可以提供具有以上想法的经营者，一个满意的方式，我们也欢迎可能的卖方与那些过去与我们合作过的对象打听。
Charlie and I frequently get approached about acquisitions that don"t come close to meeting our tests: We"ve found that if you advertise an interest in buying collies, a lot of people will call hoping to sell you their cocker spaniels. A line from a country song expresses our feeling about new ventures, turnarounds, or auction-like sales: "When the phone don"t ring, you"ll know it"s me."
另一方面查理跟我也常常接到一些不符合我们条件的询问，包括新事业、转机股、拍卖案以及最常见的中介案。我们发现如果你登广告要买牧羊犬，结果却有一大堆人打电话来要卖你长耳猎犬，对于这类的事业，有首乡村歌曲其中的一句歌词最能描述我们的感觉，「若电话不响，你就知道那是我」。
Besides being interested in the purchase of businesses as described above, we are also interested in the negotiated purchase of large, but not controlling, blocks of stock comparable to those we hold in Capital Cities, Salomon, Gillette, USAir, and Champion. We are not interested, however, in receiving suggestions about purchases we might make in the general stock market.
除了以上买下整家公司的购并案外，我们也会考虑买进一大部份不具控制权的股份，就像我们在资本城、所罗门、吉列、美国航空与冠军企业这几个Case一样的公司，不过对于一般直接从股票市场上买进股份的建议我们，则一点兴趣都没有。
Miscellaneous
其它事项
Ken Chace has decided not to stand for reelection as a director at our upcoming annual meeting. We have no mandatory retirement age for directors at Berkshire (and won"t!), but Ken, at 75 and living in Maine, simply decided to cut back his activities.
Ken Chace决定从今年股东会起不再担任本公司的董事，在Berkshire我们没有强制董事退休的年龄限制(以后绝对也不会有)，但是住在缅因州75岁的Ken还是决定减少自己在Berkshire的活动量。
Ken was my immediate choice to run the textile operation after Buffett Partnership, Ltd. assumed control of Berkshire early in 1965. Although I made an economic mistake in sticking with the textile business, I made no mistake in choosing Ken: He ran the operation well, he was always 100% straight with me about its problems, and he generated the funds that allowed us to diversify into insurance.
Ken是我在1965年透过巴菲特合伙入主Berkshire时，选择经营纺织事业的第一人选，虽然我在坚持纺织事业继续经营上做了错误的决策，但选择Ken却是正确的决定，他把公司经营的非常好，对于所面临的问题也是百分之百地坦诚，更重要的是他产生出足够让我们进军保险业的资金。
My wife, Susan, will be nominated to succeed Ken. She is now the second largest shareholder of Berkshire and if she outlives me will inherit all of my stock and effectively control the company. She knows, and agrees, with my thoughts on successor management and also shares my view that neither Berkshire nor its subsidiary businesses and important investments should be sold simply because some very high bid is received for one or all.
我的内人Susan将会被提名接替Ken担任董事，她个人现在是Berkshire第二大股东，而且要是她活的比我久的话，还会继承我个人所持有的股份，进而取得公司的控制权，她明了也完全同意我个人对于可能接替人选的想法，同时也认同不管是Berkshire本身或是旗下事业与主要的投资，都不会单纯地因为有人出高价要买，便轻易地对外出售。
I feel strongly that the fate of our businesses and their managers should not depend on my health - which, it should be added, is excellent - and I have planned accordingly. Neither my estate plan nor that of my wife is designed to preserve the family fortune; instead, both are aimed at preserving the character of Berkshire and returning the fortune to society.
我强烈地感觉Berkshire企业与经理人的命运不应该依赖在我个人的健康之上，当然若是因此可以加分会更好，为此我已做好的万全的计画，不管是我个人或是我内人的遗嘱都不打算将这些财产留给家族，相反地重点会放在如何保持Berkshire的特质，并将所有的财富回归给社会。