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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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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Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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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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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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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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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 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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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’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’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’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
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