I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
BILL ACKMANI’m not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making – just the facts.
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In the investing business you need a – a high degree of confidence but you also need a high degree of humbleness and you have to balance those two… Humbleness comes from mistakes.
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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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You can learn investing by reading books.
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What I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.
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You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
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I love what I do. I don’t do it for the money. I work on behalf of investors that I like and want to do well for. I’m a competitive person.
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I’m not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making – just the facts.
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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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What motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
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Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
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I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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The untold secret of McDonald’s is that when you sell a restaurant to a franchisee, sales typically go up a lot because the franchisees do a much better job managing the store.
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