Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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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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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What motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
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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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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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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 want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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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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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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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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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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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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Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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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’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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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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