We invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created.
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.
More Bill Ackman Quotes
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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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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’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
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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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I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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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 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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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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You can learn investing by reading books.
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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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