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問立志。 先生曰：「只念念要存天理，即是立志。能不忘乎此，久則自然心中凝聚，猶道家所謂『結聖胎』也。此天理之念常存，馴至於美大聖神，亦只從此一念存養擴充去耳。」

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凡拚之道，實水于盤，攘臂袂及肘。堂上則播灑，室中握手。執箕膺揲，厥中有帚。入戶而立，其儀不貸。執帚下箕，倚于戶側。凡拚之紀，必由奧始。俯仰磬折，拚毋有徹。拚前而退，聚於戶內。坐板排之，以葉適己。實帚于箕。先生若作，乃興而辭。坐執而立，遂出弃之。既拚反立，是協是稽，暮食復禮。昏將舉火，執燭隅坐。錯總之法，橫于坐所。櫛之遠近，乃承厥火。居句如矩，蒸閒容蒸。然者處下，捧椀以爲緒。右手執燭，左手正櫛。有墮代燭，交坐毋倍尊者。乃取厥櫛，遂出是去。

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第59篇弟子職·第4则

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In our last two annual reports, we furnished you a table that Charlie and I believe is central to estimating Berkshire's intrinsic value. In the updated version of that table, which follows, we trace our two key components of value. The first column lists our per-share ownership of investments (including cash and equivalents) and the second column shows our per-share earnings from Berkshire's operating businesses before taxes and purchase-accounting adjustments (discussed on pages 69 and 70), but after all interest and corporate expenses. The second column excludes all dividends, interest and capital gains that we realized from the investments presented in the first column. In effect, the columns show what Berkshire would look like were it split into two parts, with one entity holding our investments and the other operating all of our businesses and bearing all corporate costs.

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1997 Chairman's Letter, excerpt 4

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During all this time I kept my position with the electric company and gradually advanced to chief engineer at a salary of one hundred and twenty-five dollars a month. But my gas-engine experiments were no more popular with the president of the company than my first mechanical leanings were with my father. It was not that my employer objected to experiments--only to experiments with a gas engine. I can still hear him say: "Electricity, yes, that's the coming thing. But gas--no."

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Chapter II, excerpt 21

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Standardization (to use the word as I understand it) is not just taking one's best selling article and concentrating on it. It is planning day and night and probably for years, first on something which will best suit the public and then on how it should be made. The exact processes of manufacturing will develop of themselves. Then, if we shift the manufacturing from the profit to the service basis, we shall have a real business in which the profits will be all that any one could desire.

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Chapter III, excerpt 32

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