Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
BILL ACKMANIn order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
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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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In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
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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 want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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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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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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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 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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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
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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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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’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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