Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
BILL ACKMANWe invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created.
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You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
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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 I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.
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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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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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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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Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
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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’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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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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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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Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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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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What motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
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