Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
BILL ACKMANWhat motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
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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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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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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 am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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You can learn investing by reading books.
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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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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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Everyone told me it was a really stupid idea to start my own hedge fund right out of business school. That’s how I knew that it was a good idea.
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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’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
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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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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 order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
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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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