Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
BILL ACKMANIn order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
More Bill Ackman Quotes
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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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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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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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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 think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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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’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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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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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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You can learn investing by reading books.
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You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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