I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
BILL ACKMANWhat 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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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’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
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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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You can learn investing by reading books.
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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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Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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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 I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.
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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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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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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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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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