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I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.

Bill Ackman

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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Experience Learning Mistake
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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Live Love Money Myself Need Work
What I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.
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Better Love Myself Sports Tennis
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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Better Management Sales Secret Sold Store
Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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Goodness Investment Record Track
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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Balance Business Confidence Humble Investment Mistake Yourself
I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
BILL ACKMAN

Myself People Person Thinking Wrong
What motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
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Drive Motivational Myself People Success
Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
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Business Evidence Investment Right Time Yourself
I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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Myself People Preparation Right Thinking
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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Believe Earth End Evidence Myself Right
What the market tells you in the short term is what a certain subset of people believe. That doesn’t mean they’re right.
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Believe Marketing People Right Short
I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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Creation Destroy Economics Equity Goodness Myself Private Value
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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Competition Investment Love Money Myself Nature Person Work
Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
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Death Existence Fight Home Myself Win
In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
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Inspirational Order Rejection Success Yourself

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