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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.

Bill Ackman

I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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Accomplishment Myself Optimism People
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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Believe Marketing People Right Short
I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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Greatness Investment Myself Record Time
Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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Investment Learning Yourself
What I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.
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Better Love Myself Sports Tennis
You can learn investing by reading books.
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Book Business Investment Learning Reading Yourself
In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
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Inspirational Order Rejection Success Yourself
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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Better Management Sales Secret Sold Store
Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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Experience Learning Mistake
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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Decision Emotional Fact Investment Myself Purity
Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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Goodness Investment Record Track
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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Live Love Money Myself Need Work
I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
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Myself People Person Thinking Wrong
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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Business Goodness Ideas Myself School Start Stupidity
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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Balance Business Confidence Humble Investment Mistake Yourself
I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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Myself People Preparation Right Thinking

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