㋃ § 击球区
- 财经博主 | finfluencer
- 奉陪到底 | fight to the end / dance to the end
- 击球区 | strike zone[1]
- 牛马 | beast of burden / corporate cattle / office drone / workhorse
- 怒发冲冠 | with one’s hackles up
- 赢麻了 | The winning never stops / Wins come all day
Buffett referred to Ted Williams in his 1997 letter: “We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his “best” cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his “worst” spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors… If they are in the strike zone at all, the business “pitches” we now see are just catching the lower outside corner. If we swing, we will be locked into low returns. But if we let all of today’s balls go by, there can be no assurance that the next ones we see will be more to our liking. Perhaps the attractive prices of the past were the aberrations, not the full prices of today. Unlike Ted, we can’t be called out if we resist three pitches that are barely in the strike zone; nevertheless, just standing there, day after day, with my bat on my shoulder is not my idea of fun.” ↩︎