In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
BILL ACKMANI’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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I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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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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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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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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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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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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What I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.
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Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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You can learn investing by reading books.
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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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Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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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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