The report paints a picture of Buffett as having been duped by Sokol.
该报告给人一种巴菲特被索科尔欺骗的印象。
Shortly after that meeting, Sokol made his first buys of Lubrizol shares.
在会议后不久,索科尔第一次购买了路博润的股票。
Still, an adviser on business ethics probably wouldn't recommend copying Mr Sokol.
尽管如此,商业道德顾问大概不会推荐人们复制索科尔的行为。
I found Sokol to be a brilliant executive, a company builder who gets results.
我发现索科尔是一位非常出色的管理人士,在打造企业方面卓有成效。
"I joined a chess club and lost to an eight-year girl," Sokol told Discovery News.
“我参加了一个象棋俱乐部,输给了一个8岁的女孩,”Sokol告诉发现新闻。
Mr. Sokol and the other MidAmerican managers proved to be tough bargainers. Mr.
索科尔和中美公司的其他管理者被证明是谈判高手。
Sokol began to raise concerns and received late-night phone calls warning him to stop.
索科尔开始引起关注并在深夜接到电话警告他停止调查。
A SURPRISE RESIGNATION at Berkshire Hathaway as manager David Sokol leaves the company.
伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司(Berkshire Hathaway)的经理大卫·索科尔突然宣布辞职,让许多人颇感意外。
Sokol, after discussing the deal with Messrs. Buffett and Abel, decided to make an offer.
索科尔在与巴菲特和亚伯商谈之后决定收购该公司。
Mr Sokol had mentioned that he owned Lubrizol shares when they first discussed the company.
在他们首次谈及这家公司时,索科尔已告知其持有路博润公司的股票。
When Buffett made that announcement, he said he believed Sokol had not done anything unlawful.
在巴菲特宣布消息的时候,他说他相信索科尔未曾做过任何不合法的事。
He told the secretary to go into the room with a piece of paper containing two words: David Sokol.
他让秘书拿着一张纸条进入会议室,纸条上只写着:大卫•索科尔。
Buffett said he doesn't believe those stock purchases were illegal, and didn't ask Sokol to resign.
巴菲特称他并不认为此举违法,也不因此要求Sokol辞职。
Li didn't leave the running as dramatically as Sokol, but instead, he never started working at Berkshire.
虽然李并未像索科尔那样戏剧性地离开,但是,他也从来没有真正为伯克希尔工作过。
Already, doubters have emerged who believe Mr. Sokol won't be able to pull off the deals Mr. Buffett has.
已经有人开始怀疑,索科尔可能将无力达成巴菲特能做成的交易。
A key lesson Sokol mentioned in the excerpt was the importance of removing emotion from business decisions.
在摘录中,索科尔提到,他学到的最重要的一点是,在制定商业决策时,要抛开个人情感。
We are not far away from now to have a new CEO. How do you make sure that someone in line will not act like Sokol?
我们离有一位新首席执行官已经不远了。你认为我们怎样才能保证不再出现索科尔这样的行为。
Says Berns: "Did Sokol receive positive feedback in the meeting that Lubrizol might be interested in being acquired?"
伯恩斯说:“在那次会面中,索科尔收到了路博润可能有兴趣被收购的积极反馈?
Until we know the answers to these types of questions, we won't know whether Sokol engaged in any kind of illegal activity.
在此类问题得到回答前,我们不知道索科尔是否真的参与了什么非法活动。
Mr. Sokol told Mr. Buffett that he had not hoped to be Mr. Buffett's successor, and was resigning for reasons unrelated to those trades.
索科尔告诉巴菲特,他根本没有幻想能够成为巴菲特的继承人,提出辞职的原因与那些交易完全无关。
Had Sokol already engaged Berkshire's staff to seriously look at the deal, or was a Berkshire acquisition just a vague notion of his?
索科尔曾经供职于伯克希尔公司员工,很认真的研究了此处交易,或者是当成他的对伯克希尔的收购的一次模糊概念?
The Berkshire board said it was still considering legal action against Sokol to, among other things, recover any trading profits he made.
伯克希尔公司董事会称,他们还在考虑对索科尔采取法律行动,除其他事项之外,要求归还在此事件上获得的所有收益。
Berkshire attorney Ron Olson said Sokol was interviewed at least three times regarding his Lubrizol trading and contacts with Citigroup Inc bankers.
伯克希尔代理律师ronOlson称关于索科尔的Lubrizol股票交易问题,他们至少三次约见了索科尔,并接触了花旗集团的银行家们。
When Buffett made that announcement, he said he believed Sokol had not done anything unlawful. The statement Wednesday seemed to suggest otherwise.
在巴菲特宣布消息的时候,他说他相信索科尔未曾做过任何不合法的事。但星期三的声明看起来已经不是那么回事了。
You don't get those kinds of results by being a milquetoast, and Sokol — as driven an executive as I've met — rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.
这样的成就绝难出自一位意志薄弱者,而索科尔——正如我所见,一个充满动力的高管——曾激怒了很多人。
The report paints a picture of Buffett as having been duped by Sokol. However, one shareholder said it was also crafted to exonerate Buffett from wrongdoing.
该报告给人一种巴菲特被索科尔欺骗的印象。但是,一位股东说它也有刻意为巴菲特的错误推脱的印象。
The report also reveals that Sokol didn't view himself as a potential successor to Buffett – or at least, didn't after the trading transgressions came to light.
报告中还披露,索科尔并没有把自己视为巴菲特未来的继承人;或者至少在违规交易事件曝光之后,他是这么想的。
Instead, Berkshire issued a press release that read to many as a defense of Sokol, whose actions are revealed in the audit committee's report to have been indefensible.
非但如此,伯克希尔公司竟发表了一封新闻稿,言辞中极力袒护索科尔,而审计委员会报告显示,索科尔的行为根本没有辩解的余地。
Buffett has regularly praised Sokol's work, and many investors have speculated that Sokol was on the short list to succeed Buffett at the Omaha, Neb.-based company.
巴菲特循例赞扬了Sokol的工作。许多投资者推测,在这家总部位于内布拉斯加洲奥马哈市的公司中,Sokol的名字是在于巴菲特继任者的短名单之中的。
Buffett has regularly praised Sokol's work, and many investors have speculated that Sokol was on the short list to succeed Buffett at the Omaha, Neb.-based company.
巴菲特循例赞扬了Sokol的工作。许多投资者推测,在这家总部位于内布拉斯加洲奥马哈市的公司中,Sokol的名字是在于巴菲特继任者的短名单之中的。
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