We invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created.
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’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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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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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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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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In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
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I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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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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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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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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Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
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You can learn investing by reading books.
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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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