I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
BILL ACKMANIn 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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What motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
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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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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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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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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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You can learn investing by reading books.
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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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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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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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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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Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
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