What motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
BILL ACKMANI want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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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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What I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.
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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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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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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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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 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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Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
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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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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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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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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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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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