Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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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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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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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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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Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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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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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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You can learn investing by reading books.
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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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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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What I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.
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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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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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