You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
BILL ACKMANI want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
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I have more money than I need. I don’t need to work for a living. I do this because I love what I do.
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In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
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If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.
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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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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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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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We invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created.
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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’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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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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Everyone told me it was a really stupid idea to start my own hedge fund right out of business school. That’s how I knew that it was a good idea.
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