Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
BILL ACKMANLet me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
BILL ACKMANWhat I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.
BILL ACKMANUltimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
BILL ACKMANI want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
BILL ACKMANWhat the market tells you in the short term is what a certain subset of people believe. That doesn’t mean they’re right.
BILL ACKMANI am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
BILL ACKMANI think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
BILL ACKMANI 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.
BILL ACKMANWhat motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
BILL ACKMANIn 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.
BILL ACKMANWe invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created.
BILL ACKMANYou should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
BILL ACKMANIn order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
BILL ACKMANIf I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.
BILL ACKMANI’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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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