Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
BILL ACKMANWhat motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
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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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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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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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You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
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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’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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Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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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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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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You can learn investing by reading books.
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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 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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What motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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